Faringdon House near Faringdon in Oxfordshire was a fortified Royalist garrison covering the western road out of Oxford toward the Royalist west. Cromwell besieged it unsuccessfully in April 1645; the garrison under Sir William Courtney repulsed the assault. Faringdon held until April 1646 when, with Oxford besieged and relief impossible, it finally surrendered.
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