East Surrey saw cavalry skirmishing as Waller's Parliamentary forces moving between London and the south coast encountered Royalist patrols from the Sussex Royalist territory. Godstone and Bletchingley, on the main road south from London, were frequently the scene of such encounters. Waller's aggressive operations in Surrey kept the road to the coast open for Parliamentary resupply.
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