Cromwellian ramparts
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Cromwellian ramparts
Image: © Tiger Taken: 1 Feb 2020
At the beginning of the English Civil War in 1642, Cambridge Castle was occupied by Parliamentary forces. The townsfolk mainly supported Oliver Cromwell, their local hero with his background in Huntingdon and Ely, but the University and Colleges were a hotbed of Royalism. Cromwell ordered the long-neglected fortifications to be beefed up as a defence against this threat, and so two earthen bastions of earth were hastily constructed. In the event no assaults took place and in 1647 the remains of the castle were slighted. This embankment is what remains of the eastern earth wall which runs along the boundary of the Shire Hall site. The roof of a house in Magrath Avenue can be glimpsed through the vegetation.
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Image Location
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52.212859
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0.115011