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Clayton's Way Civil War battery is a fortified artillery position dating from the English Civil War period of the seventeenth century, located in Huntingdonshire. The site represents one of the defensive works constructed during the conflict to control strategic routes and protect Parliamentary or Royalist interests in the region. The battery would have consisted of earthwork defences designed to mount cannon and provide firing positions across the surrounding terrain. Such field fortifications were characteristic of Civil War military engineering, constructed with speed and economy to meet immediate tactical requirements rather than the permanent masonry construction of earlier fortresses.
Civil War battery at Clayton's Way is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015008. View the official record →
Clayton's Way Civil War battery is a fortified artillery position dating from the English Civil War period of the seventeenth century, located in Huntingdonshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015008.
Civil War battery at Clayton's Way is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1015008.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Huntingdon Bridge (0.9 km), Huntingdon Castle (Castle Hills): a motte and bailey castle and Civil War fieldwork (1.1 km), Moated site 170m east of St Mary's Church (1.5 km).
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