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English Civil War

Action at Burford 1649

1649
Oxfordshire, England
Also known as: Burford Mutiny · Leveller Mutiny at Burford
Era
English Civil War
Battle Type
Skirmish
Location
Oxfordshire, England
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Defeated
Levellers (Thompson)
Forces
Leveller mutineers c.300–400.
VS
Victor
Parliamentarians (Cromwell/Fairfax)
Forces
Parliamentarians c.500–800 cavalry
Outcome
Mutineers trapped at Burford; 340 captured; three ringleaders shot in churchyard
The Battle

History & Significance

Cromwell and Fairfax rode through the night to surround the Leveller mutineers at Burford; three soldiers shot in the churchyard ended organised Leveller resistance in the army.

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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Action at Burford 1649

Medieval settlement of Widford immediately east of Manor Farm
Scheduled monument · ~1.5 miles
Pain's Farm bowl barrow 30m south of Pain's Farm Cottages
Scheduled monument · ~2.4 miles
Asthall Barrow: an Anglo-Saxon burial mound 100m SSW of Barrow Farm
Scheduled monument · ~2.5 miles
Romano-British villa south east of Great Barrington
Scheduled monument · ~2.5 miles
Pair of confluent bowl barrows 200m SSW of Bockett's Corner on Leigh Hale Plain
Scheduled monument · ~2.8 miles
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