BattlefieldsBodiam Castle Civil War Garrison 1643
English Civil War

Bodiam Castle Civil War Garrison 1643

1643
England
Era
English Civil War
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
England
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Forces
Not recorded in historical accounts
Forces
Royalist Rother valley
VS
Victor
Parliamentary
Forces
Parliamentary forces
Outcome
Bodiam was occupied briefly; Parliamentary forces secured the Rother valley; the castle was not subjected to major siege action and passed without dramatic incident.
The Battle

History & Significance

Bodiam Castle in the eastern Sussex Weald was occupied and used as a minor garrison or strongpoint during the Civil War period. The fourteenth-century castle offered defensible accommodation for forces controlling the upper Rother valley and the routes between Kent and Sussex.

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