Compton Wynyates, the magnificent Tudor mansion of the Earl of Northampton, was garrisoned by Royalists. Parliament took it in 1644 and held it briefly; it was then retaken and changed hands again. The house survived and remains one of England's finest Tudor mansions.
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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