Perched on a dramatic sandstone crag, Beeston Castle commanded the Cheshire plain. Its tiny Royalist garrison held out until November 1645, long after Naseby. A Royalist officer infiltrated the castle with eight men in a night escalade in 1643 — one of the war's most audacious actions. The ruins remain dramatically prominent.
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