The ancient abbey at Crowland in the Fens was used as a Royalist stronghold. Its island position in the marshes made it defensible but also isolated. Parliament reduced it as part of their campaign to control Lincolnshire and the Fens.
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.
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