Reference WMO/201477
Address:
By the Memorial Clock Tower
Market Place
High Street
Coleford
GL16 8AF
England
Open large map- Stone Stone (any)
- English Civil Wars (1642-1651)
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Battle of Coleford / 20th February 1643 / This plaque was presented in / February 2010 by the Sealed Knot Society / to commemorate those in this town who / fought and died for their beliefs on the / day of the battle. // Early in
1643 Welsh / Royalists raised an army to / support King Charles 1 and / invaded the strongly / Parliamentarian Forest of / Dean. Their objective was / Gloucester, but first they / had to eliminate Colonel / Berrows' embryonic / Parliamentarian regiment / forming at Coleford. / Approaching from / Monmouth the attack was led / by dragoons commanded by / Sir Richard Lawdley. / The Royalists met rough / barricades in the streets and / were fired upon by musketeers / deployed in the houses. / Troops on both sides were / untried amateurs and overall / casualties were low, but some of the local / foresters were marksmen and / Lawdley was killed / in the action./ Eventually the greatly outnumbered defenders were / driven from the town and / dispersed in the forest. / The Royalists' short-lived / 'Mushroom Army' was / destroyed one month later / at Highnam.
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