Downton in the Avon valley south of Salisbury witnessed minor actions as imperialist forces from the southwest pushed against royalist-held territory in Hampshire. Local lords shifted allegiances and skirmishing was endemic throughout the Anarchy in this zone between Winchester and Salisbury.
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