Geography Of The Civil War

[bainbrig]

How did the geography of the English Civil War evolve? Battles were fought out west, up north, down south - I know there wasn’t a fixture list, but as it must have beeb a major problem shifting thousands of men hundreds of miles, how were the venues ‘decided’?

BB

[Guilbert53]

King Charles left London to go to areas where he felt he had more support (such as Oxford).

Generally the King had more support in the countryside and the "shires", and less support in the cities.

The King went to Nottingham, Stafford, Shrewsbury etc and the Parliament army often then followed him to those places to have their battles.

[bainbrig]

Thanks Guilbert, interesting. Was that the pattern for the War, i.e. the King's forces being chased round the country by Cromwell's lot?

Just out of interest, how does Brentford fit into the pattern?

Thanks.

BB

[Baldric]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War#Geography

[jourdain2]

Around my area in Yorkshire, battles were fought because powerful local families supported different sides. I think it was Fairfax at the battle of Bradford (not a major one in the history books). Youngest sprog lived near Marston Moor. She lived in part of what had been a Royalist house - across the Ouse you could see the estate of a Parliamentarian supporter. I admit to being ignorant of how this battle built up to the size it did - something for me to research next
miserable, rainy day.

[tonyav]

There was a skirmish or to very close to where i live.
Scroll down to 'The Civil War' on this link.
http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/articles/Walsall/16thcentury.htm

[tonyav]

Two not to ^^^