As Essex marched into Cornwall in the disastrous 1644 Lostwithiel campaign Royalist cavalry from Okehampton harassed his communications and reported his movements; the intelligence gathered helped Charles I plan the encirclement that trapped Essex army at Fowey.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
Research a location near Devon