Beeston Castle perched on its sandstone crag was seized for the King in December 1643 by eight Royalist soldiers who climbed the cliff at night — one of the most audacious coups of the Civil War. It held out for nearly two years before starvation forced surrender in November 1645. The garrison of fifty-three men finally submitted.
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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