South Wingfield Manor in Derbyshire — famous as a prison for Mary Queen of Scots — was a Royalist garrison during the Civil War. Parliament besieged it and it eventually surrendered. After its capture, Parliament ordered it slighted. The dramatic ruins of Wingfield Manor — which can still be visited — stand as monuments to both its earlier royal association and its Civil War destruction.
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