English Civil War

The following extract is from The History of Shrawley, Early Norman to 1700.
by R.D. Sproat Feb2021.
Reproduced here by kind permission of the author.

‘After the Battle of Worcester, which had taken place on 3rd September 1651, the Royalist and a large Scottish army was routed and the Parliamentary Army controlled Worcester and the River Severn. The Royalist Childe maintained a detachment of troops within Shrawley Wood. Such was the paranoia that they dug deep defensive ditches on Oliver’s Mound against attack.

From the river. Major-General Waller’s Parliamentary troops roamed north Worcestershire and Hereford hunting down pockets of Royalist soldiers. The detachment were so impoverished that they turned to being highway robbers much to the annoyance of the locals.’

R. D. Sproat