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Roundway Down

Near Devizes, Wiltshire

Royalist cavalry drove Parliament's horsemen over a cliff, into the 'Bloody Ditch'.

In July 1643 a royalist cavalry force charged a Parliamentarian army on the open downs above Devizes. The Parliamentarian horsemen were routed, and in the panic many galloped over the steep edge of the down, falling to their deaths in a place still called the Bloody Ditch.

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When
13 July 1643
Where
51.3700, -1.9900
Group
Battlefields

Visiting

Open downland with footpaths near Oliver's Castle hillfort.

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