The Marquess of Winchester turned his enormous mansion into a Royalist fortress from the outset. Parliamentary forces from Hampshire and Surrey made repeated assaults in 1643 but failed to break through its earthwork outworks. The garrison sorties caused serious losses to the besiegers.
Garrison: c.400; besieging force: c.800
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.
Research a location near Hampshire