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Clayton's Way Battery is a Civil War earthwork fortification located in Huntingdonshire, England. The site dates from the English Civil War period in the seventeenth century and represents one of the defensive installations constructed during the conflict. The battery comprises an artillery emplacement with associated earthworks designed to command approaches across the landscape. Such installations were typical of the fortified positions established by both Parliamentarian and Royalist forces to protect strategic locations and maintain control of the surrounding territory during the 1640s.
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 Battery is a Civil War earthwork fortification located in Huntingdonshire, England. 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).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Civil War battery at Clayton's Way's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Civil War battery at Clayton's Way stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.