The Battlefields Trust
Registered UK Charity: 1017387
Meadow Cottage, 33 High Green, Brooke, Norwich, Norfolk NR15 1HR, U.K.
EVENTS PROGRAMME
Guided Battlefield Walks – Study Days – Annual Conference
Guided Battlefield Walks are free to members of the Trust, who are warmly invited to bring along friends; there is no fixed charge but there is a voluntary collection at the event.
NB: The contact name and telephone number for each walk is given against each event.
Do ring beforehand to check any unforeseen changes: foot and mouth disease can
mean paths are closed at short notice !
Study Days and the Annual Conference need to be booked and paid for in advance,
using the booking forms provided below.
Saturday 2nd March 2002
STUDY DAY (am) with GUIDED WALK (pm)
The Battles of Newbury
First Battle of Newbury (1643)
Second Battle of Newbury (1644)
Venue: Newbury Public Library, Newbury, Berkshire
Time: 9.30 am with coffee, with buffet lunch at 1pm followed by battlefield walk.
The Study includes distinguished speakers Chris Scott on Towards a Battlefield Study Critique, Glenn Foard, the Northamptonshire County Archaeological Officer on Battlefield Archaeology of the English Civil War, Veronica Floratio, West Berkshire County Archaeological Officer on Newbury’s Battlefields.
Lunch follows and then at 1pm James parker, a trustee of the The Battlefields Trust, will give a short talk and then lead the tour round Newbury’s Civil War battlefields.
Cost: £ 15 for the day incl. Lunch and refreshments (£ 20 for non-members)
Please make cheque payable to: The Battlefields Trust
& send cheque to:
Stephen Barker, 12 Hazley Walk, Buckingham, Bucks MK18 7BL
Contact: Stephen Barker Tel: 01280 - 824877
The Battlefields Trust
Registered UK Charity: 1017387
Meadow Cottage, 33 High Green, Brooke, Norwich, Norfolk NR15 1HR, U.K.
Sunday 20th April 2002
Tour: Some Welsh Castles
Venue: Central car park in Hawarden
Time: 10.30 am
Tour organised by Brenda Rampling (longstanding member of the Trust) and guided by Chester city archaeologist Simon Ward.
Castles to be seen include Hawarden Castle, Ewlow Castle.
Cost: £ 5 per head for the guide plus the entrance fees for any castles, museums etc.
Please make cheque payable to: The Battlefields Trust
And send cheque to:
Paddy Griffith, 41 Burlington Road, Manchester M20 4QA
Contact: Paddy Griffith (Please ring beforehand in case of unforeseen changes)
Tel: 0161 – 4342551 Email:
Sunday April 28th 2002
Guided walk: The Battle of Radford– 877 AD
Venue: Meet at the ‘Stag Inn’ at Offchurch on the B4455 near Leamington Spa.
Time: 1pm
An opportunity to find out about a hitherto obscure battle uncovered by local historian and trust member Peter Ellis. This battle took place in the vicinity of Radford, close to modern Leamington Spa, being fought between the Vikings and a Saxon army led by Fremund, Offa’s son. Legend has it that Fremund was beheaded by his own side during the battle!!
Contact: Stephen Barker (Please ring beforehand in case of unforeseen changes)
Tel: 01280 - 824877
The Battlefields Trust
Registered UK Charity: 1017387
Meadow Cottage, 33 High Green, Brooke, Norwich, Norfolk NR15 1HR, U.K.
Sunday May 5th 2002
Guided Walk: The Battle of Chalgrove (1643)
Venue: John Hampden monument, Monument Road, Chalgrove (situated off the B480
on the opposite side to Chalgrove village).
Time: 2pm
Local historian and member of the Chalgrove Battle Group Derek Lester will be leading a walk around the site of the Battle of Chalgrove which took place on June 18th 1643. Prince Rupert led a force from Oxford to intercept a pay train carrying £21,000 to the Earl of Essex. Having failed in his mission, Rupert turned back to Oxford, but was caught by the roundheads and turned round to fight them at Chalgrove. This walk forms part of the Chalgrove Mayday Festival.
Contact: Stephen Barker (Please ring beforehand in case of unforeseen changes)
Tel: 01280 - 824877
Sunday June 2nd 2002
Guided Walk: Naseby (1645)
Venue: The walk will begin at 10.30 am from the large Victorian obelisk to the battle, just outside the village of Naseby itself.
Time: 10.30 am
Author and historian Martin Marix-Evans will be leading a walk across the site of the decisive major battle of the English Civil War. This walk will look especially at the key areas where the battle took place, including those places to the north of the field where an abundance of musket balls have been found. Martin is currently writing a book about Naseby and is able to gain access to fields usually closed to battlefield walkers.
Contact: Stephen Barker (Please ring beforehand in case of unforeseen changes)
Tel: 01280 - 824877
The Battlefields Trust
Registered UK Charity: 1017387
Meadow Cottage, 33 High Green, Brooke, Norwich, Norfolk NR15 1HR, U.K.
Sunday 29th June
Guided walk: The Civil War in Lathom
Venue: The site of the chapel at Lathom House, near Ormskirk: it is first on the left up a back lane to the east of the B5240 about 1km south of the A5209 at Ring o Bells (east of Burscough) or about 2km north of the A577 running between Ormskirk and Skelmersdale.
Time: 10 am
Lathom House was the scene of one of the most famous sieges of the Civil War – heroic Royalist resistance by the chatelaine of the house against repeated Roundhead attacks..
Contact: Paddy Griffith (Please ring beforehand in case of unforeseen changes)
Tel: 0161 – 4342551 Email:
Sunday July 21st 2002
Guided Walk: Edgecote (1469)
Venue:Meet outside Chipping Warden Church. The church is just off the A361, a few miles outside Banbury.
Time: 1pm
Trust member Harvey Watson will be leading a party around the site of this Wars of the Roses encounter fought between supporters of Edward IV and the Yorkist rebels led by ‘Robin of Redesdale’. Edward’s supporters, the Earls of Devon and Pembroke quarrelled over a barmaid in Banbury and fatally split their forces before the battle.
Contact: Stephen Barker (Please ring beforehand in case of unforeseen changes)
Tel: 01280 - 824877
The Battlefields Trust
Registered UK Charity: 1017387
Meadow Cottage, 33 High Green, Brooke, Norwich, Norfolk NR15 1HR, U.K.
Sunday August 18th 2002
Guided walk: A walk around Runnymede 1215’
Venue:Meet at 1pm at the car park sited to the rear of the tea shop at Runnymede, which is approx. 5 miles out of Windsor on the A308, the Staines road.
Time: 1pm
Harvey Watson (Tel: 01494 – 726673) will lead a tour around Runnymede, where in 1215 civil war between King John and the barons resulted in the signing of the Magna Carta – probably the most important document in English history. During this tour visits will also be made to the impressive Kennedy and RAF Memorials sited there.
Contact: Stephen Barker (Please ring beforehand in case of unforeseen changes)
Tel: 01280 - 824877
October 2002
Annual Residential Conference
Venue: The Netherlands
Date: October - exact dates and details still being finalised – to be announced shortly
but ring or email Chris Scott meanwhile (see below) – he’ll be delighted to hear
from you..
The annual conference is always enormous fun – full of camaraderie but backed by
first-class speakers and crystal clear battlefield visits.
The Netherlands was the bastion of Europe that defied the might of Philip II’s Spain and that of France under Louis XIV – there is much for the military historian.
Maurice of Nassau, the son of William the Silent, implemented many changes in military organisation and tactics, later taken up by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.
Read C.V. Wedgewood’s William the Silent before you go and bring the family – there so much to see in the Netherlands and so easy to get around by train or bus.
Tel: 01793 – 831110
Email:
The Battlefields Trust
Registered UK Charity: 1017387
Meadow Cottage, 33 High Green, Brooke, Norwich, Norfolk NR15 1HR, U.K.
Saturday November 2nd 2002
Study Day: The Jacobites in the North West, with special reference to the Battle of
Clifton (1746)
Venue: Regimental Council Chamber, Fulwood Barracks, Preston, Lancashire.
Time: 10 am to 5 pm (including FREE lunch)
A study day to be held in conjunction with the Museum of The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment with a range of different distinguished speakers including Professor Christopher Duffy, Bill Turner, Mark Hone, with two talks on the 1715 rebellion and 2 talks on the 1745 rebellion.
Cost: £ 15 per head (includes lunch and wine)
Please make cheque payable to: The Battlefields Trust
And send cheque to:
Paddy Griffith, 41 Burlington Road, Manchester M20 4QA
Contact: Paddy Griffith (Please ring beforehand in case of unforeseen changes)
Tel: 0161 – 4342551 Email: