Explore Newbury Town Walks: The First Battle of Newbury

The walk starts from The Bowler's Arms, (Enborne Street RG14 6TW) and moves north along Enborne Street to Cope Hall Lane, where Essex brought his troops up onto the high plateau of Wash Common. We then turn east along Essex Street towards the Falkland Memorial, moving from the Parliamentary position through ‘no man’s land’ to where the Royalists had spread their soldiers in a defensive position across The Wash, blocking Parliament’s route back to London. Returning towards Enborne Street through the woods by the water tower and the recreation ground. Although the ‘battlefield walk’ focuses mainly on the reason the armies came to be fighting at Newbury and what transpired over the course of that one day, the walk will also touch on items like road names, pub names, the bronze age mounds, enclosure etc. together with questions walkers may have. To help with the explanations there will be an album of maps and old photos to illustrate different points along the way.

Book via the Corn Exchange website.