Witney in west Oxfordshire was used as a Parliamentary outpost in 1645 during the tightening of the Oxford siege perimeter. Witney commanded the Windrush crossing and the road west from Oxford toward Faringdon; Parliamentary forces here could intercept Royalist communications between the Oxford garrison and the Faringdon and Gloucester garrisons.
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