What is recorded here
The National Heritage List for England records Battle of Braddock Down 1643 as a registered battlefield. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Royalist forces under Lord Halsbury defeated Parliamentarian troops under Sir Thomas Fairfax on 17 July 1643. The battle was a significant Royalist victory in Cornwall during the English Civil War, helping to secure the southwest for the Crown.
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