Woodstock Manor (on the site now occupied by Blenheim Palace) was used as a Royalist garrison and held until after Oxford itself had surrendered. Its fall in April 1646 contributed to the final isolation of Oxford. Parliament subsequently demolished much of the old manor house.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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