Bolton Castle in Wensleydale, where Mary Queen of Scots had been imprisoned, was a Royalist garrison during the Civil War. Parliamentary forces besieged this remote Yorkshire Dales stronghold in 1645 as part of the reduction of Yorkshire.
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