Brill hill in Buckinghamshire, with commanding views over the Thames valley, was a key Royalist outpost protecting the northern approaches to Oxford. Parliamentary forces from Aylesbury and elsewhere repeatedly raided it. Its eventual reduction was part of the tightening blockade of Oxford.
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