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Walmer Castle Second Civil War 1648

1648
England
Era
English Civil War
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
England
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Defeated
Royalists
Forces
Second Civil War Royalist garrison
VS
Victor
Parliament
Forces
Parliamentary besiegers
Outcome
Royalist garrison surrendered 1648; the Downs castle complex returned to Parliamentary control after the naval mutiny was suppressed.
The Battle

History & Significance

Walmer Castle near Deal was another of the Downs castles seized during the Second Civil War Kentish rising of 1648. Together with Deal and Sandown, it was held by Royalist sympathisers supported by the mutinous Parliamentary fleet under Batten until Warwick recovered naval obedience and the garrisons were isolated.

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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Walmer Castle Second Civil War 1648

Artillery castle at Walmer
Scheduled monument · ~0.1 miles
Medieval manor house, Walmer
Scheduled monument · ~0.7 miles
Artillery castle at Deal
Scheduled monument · ~1.3 miles
Two bowl barrows on Free Down, 550m south of Hill Farm
Scheduled monument · ~2.1 miles
Great Mongeham Anglo-Saxon cemetery
Scheduled monument · ~2.4 miles
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