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Title: Edge Hill
The Battle and Battlefield

Author: Edwin Walford

Release Date: June 24, 2010 [EBook #32958]

Language: English

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[Illustration: THE TOWER, EDGE HILL.]

EDGE HILL:
THE BATTLE AND BATTLEFIELD.

WITH
Notes on Banbury & Thereabout.

BY
EDWIN A. WALFORD, F.G.S.

_SECOND EDITION._

Banbury:
E. A. WALFORD, 71 & 72, HIGH STREET.

London:
CASTLE, LAMB & STORR, SALISBURY SQUARE.

1904.

Preface to Edition, 1904.

For the present edition the available material of the last eighteen years
has been consulted, but the plans of battle are similar to two of those of
my book of 1886. They were then the first series of diagrammatic
representations of the fight published, but in no case has this been
acknowledged in the many plans of like kind subsequently published. Some
new facts and inferences the author hopes may increase the value of the
account.

The letters of Captain Nathaniel Fiennes and Captain Kightley, now added,
may serve to make the tale a more living one. They are reproduced, by the
kind courtesy of the authorities of the Radcliffe Library, Oxford, and the
Birmingham Reference Library.

New pages of Notes on Banbury, and an extended bibliography are also
given.

EDWIN A. WALFORD.

_Banbury,

March, 1904._

Preface to First Edition.

In the following pages an endeavour has been made to give a concise
account of the physical features of the Edge Hill district, as well as to
describe the events of the first great battle of the Civil War, with which
it is so intimately associated. The intention is to provide a handbook for
the guidance of the visitor rather than to attempt any elaborate
historical or scientific work. Though Nugent's "Memorials of John Hampden"
has supplied the basis of the information, Clarendon's "History of the
Great Rebellion," the various pamphlets of the time, and Beesley's
"History o