Bagshot in Surrey lay on the road from London toward Reading and the Royalist garrison at Donnington Castle. Parliamentary cavalry maintained an outpost at Bagshot in 1643 to screen the western Surrey approaches and give warning of any Royalist advance from Berkshire toward London through the Blackwater valley.
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