Monument record 1873/1 - Tiverton Heath Skirmish

<1> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol.II p.277 (Book). SCH1389.

‘…In a diary by Edward Burghall, vicar of Acton, is mention of a skirmish on Teverton Heath, on the night of the 21st of February, 1642-3. ‘Three hundred of the parliament men had taken Beeston Castle, who coming down to assist the military, were met by the horse of the array, on Te'erton Townfield: where one of colonel Mainwaring's officers was slain on the parliament side, and a few others of the king's, who were buried at Tarparley.’ The common which was the scene of this action is now inclosed, with the exception of a small quantity of marshy ground…’