Lady Brilliana Harley held Brampton Bryan Castle against Royalist sieges in 1643 while her husband sat in Parliament; she died of illness during the defence; one of the most celebrated female defences of the Civil War alongside Lady Banks at Corfe.
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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