Goodrich Castle in Herefordshire — one of the finest surviving medieval castles in England — was a major Royalist garrison. Colonel John Birch's Parliamentary forces besieged it persistently. Parliament deployed 'Roaring Meg' — an enormous mortar cannon, still displayed at Hereford Cathedral — to bombard the walls. The castle surrendered in July 1646. Parliament ordered it slighted, and the deliberate demolition left the magnificent ruins that stand today.
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