Berkeley Castle was a Royalist stronghold guarding the Severn crossing between Bristol and Gloucester. Colonel Rainsborough took it after a brief siege. Its fall helped sever communications between the west and the Midlands. The castle is the oldest continuously inhabited castle in England.
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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