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English Civil War

Colchester Preliminary Approaches 1648

1648
England
Era
English Civil War
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
England
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Defeated
Royalist
Forces
Royalist rearguard under Goring's army
VS
Victor
Parliamentary
Forces
Parliamentary cavalry under Whalley
Outcome
Parliamentary pursuit forces drove the Royalist army into Colchester where they were besieged; preliminary pursuit actions shaped the siege.
The Battle

History & Significance

Before the formal siege of Colchester in 1648, Parliamentary cavalry pursued the retreating Royalist army under Lord Goring northward through Essex, fighting rearguard actions at Chelmsford and Braintree before the Royalists were driven into Colchester.

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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Colchester Preliminary Approaches 1648

Small multivallate hillfort known as Pitchbury Ramparts
Scheduled monument · ~1 miles
Moat Farm Dyke: a northern extension of Lexden Dyke; part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum and Romano-British town of Camulodunum
Scheduled monument · ~1.4 miles
Earthwork in Brinkley Grove
Scheduled monument · ~1.5 miles
Site of pre-Roman settlement
Scheduled monument · ~2.2 miles
Lexden Dyke at Spring Meadow: part of the Iron Age territorial oppidum and Romano-British town of Camulodunum
Scheduled monument · ~2.3 miles
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