Chirk Castle, the Marcher fortress guarding the Ceiriog valley, held a Royalist garrison. Mytton's Parliamentary forces besieged it in early 1646. Unlike most Civil War castles it was not slighted after the war; it remains one of the best-preserved castle fortresses in Wales.
Parliamentary besieging force: c.1,500
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