Banbury Castle north of Oxford was one of the outermost Royalist fortifications covering the approaches to the Royalist capital. Parliamentary forces maintained a blockade throughout the war and the castle finally surrendered in May 1646, shortly before Oxford itself, ending Royalist control of the Cherwell valley north of Oxford.
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