Compton Wynyates — the beautiful Tudor manor house belonging to the Compton family — was used as a Royalist garrison. Parliament besieged and took it in 1644. The house had its battlements removed by Parliamentary order. Its owner, the Earl of Northampton, had been killed at Hopton Heath the previous year. The house's survival into the present day as one of England's finest Tudor mansions makes this engagement historically poignant.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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