Swarkestone Bridge — at the time one of the longest stone bridges in England, spanning the Trent flood plain south of Derby — was a strategic prize in the Derbyshire Civil War. Parliamentary forces under Sir John Gell maintained control of the bridge, preventing easy Royalist movement from Nottinghamshire into Derbyshire. The bridge gained its most famous historical association a century later when Bonnie Prince Charlie's Highland army turned back here in 1745 — the furthest south the Jacobite army reached on English soil.
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