Ladbroke in Warwickshire served as a muster point for levellers gathering from the southern Warwickshire villages during the Midlands Rising of 1607. The commons from Ladbroke and surrounding depopulated enclosure villages assembled here before joining the broader rising. It illustrated how the anti-enclosure movement had spread from its Northamptonshire core into Warwickshire.
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