Parliamentary forces secured the fenland around Whittlesey in 1643 as part of the Eastern Association consolidation of the southern fens. The flat fenland around Whittlesey was used as Parliamentary cavalry patrol territory to prevent Royalist incursion into the Eastern Association heartland from the west.
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