One of the Civil War's most audacious actions: Captain Thomas Sandford led eight men who scaled the cliffs and walls of Beeston Castle at night and bluffed the garrison into surrendering. The castle sat atop a 350ft sandstone crag; the night climb was an extraordinary feat. The castle was held for the King until 1645.
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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