Parliamentary cavalry swept through the New Forest area around Fordingbridge and Ringwood in 1645 as part of operations to clear south Hampshire and north Dorset of Royalist sympathisers and cut communications between the Hampshire Royalist garrisons and the west. The New Forest Royalist sympathisers who had sheltered deserters and provided local intelligence were rounded up.
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