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	Newbury - A community website - Newbury, Berkshire, UK - History of Newbury
		Newbury remained cushioned from recession, and large numbers of men arrived from across the south to seek work.
		Newbury was used to royal visits, and in 1568 Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen, was greeted by ringing bells, though rumour says she had come to secretly give birth to an illegitimate son at Hamstead Marshall.
		Elsewhere, the first town hall was built in 1742, and in 1772, the wooden bridge in Northbrook Street was replaced by the stone one still in use today.
	www.newbury.net /history.htm (2523 words)

	First Battle of Newbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Battle of Newbury took place on 20 September 1643, in Enborne and Wash Common adjoining Newbury, between Parliamentary forces under Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, and Royalist forces under King Charles in person, accompanied by Prince Rupert and Sir Jacob Astley.
		The battle was fought throughout the day, becoming a gruelling stalemate in which neither side won a clear advantage.
		King Charles, appalled at the bloodshed, rejected his advisors' suggestions that the battle should be continued into a second day and withdrew his forces to Oxford.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Battle_of_Newbury (291 words)

	1643: Bristol, Gloucester & the First Battle of Newbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		1643: Bristol, Gloucester and the First Battle of Newbury
		The Royalist army of around 8,000 foot and 6,000 horse was commanded by King Charles in person with his Lord General the Earl of Forth as his chief of staff, Prince Rupert commanding the horse and Sir Jacob Astley commanding the foot.
		Most painful of all to the King was the death of Viscount Falkland, his Secretary of State, who rode deliberately to his death on Round Hill, in despair at the horror of civil war.
	british-civil-wars.co.uk /military/1643-bristol-gloucester-newbury.htm (1234 words)

	Car Hire Newbury Car Rental Newbury
		Newbury is situated on the River Kennet, the valley of which forms an important east-west transport route, served by the Kennet and Avon Canal, the Great Western Railway line from London to the West Country and the old A4 road from London to Bristol.
		At Newbury this east-west route is crossed by an equally important north-south route, from the major south coast port of Southampton to the industrial centres of the Midlands.
		Newbury was founded late in the eleventh century and acquired its name through being new in the sense of postdating the Doomesday Survey.
	www.ukautohire.com /newbury.html (346 words)

	A Little Bit of Wash Common
		First published in 1995, in aid of the St George's Development Fund, this short history of Wash Common was written by a local historian and was originally illustrated with some drawings by the late John C Sadler.
		South of Newbury, on the Hampshire border, lay an expanse of swampy ground, known from medieval times as The Wash. The river Enborne ran through it and the high plateau to the north of it became Wash Common.
		The first bus to be seen on the Andover Road came from Andover, belonged to the Great Western Railway and was painted in their cream and brown colours.
	www.stgeorge.easynet.co.uk /littlebit.htm (2499 words)

	UK Battlefields Resource Centre - The Civil Wars - The Gloucester Campaign 1643 - The Battle of Battle of Newbury I
		On the morning of 20th September 1643 the battle of Newbury was fought between parliament's main field army under the Earl of Essex and the main Royalist army in the south, with both Charles I and Prince Rupert present.
		Newbury was perhaps the last point at which the royalists had a real chance of winning the war.
		Newbury is one of the major battles of the war where there is real uncertainty about the detailed placing of the action within the landscape.
	www.battlefieldstrust.com /resource-centre/civil-war/battleview.asp?BattleFieldId=30 (630 words)

	Newbury
		In historical terms, Newbury was the scene of two battles during the Civil War, in 1643 and 1644.
		The First Battle of Newbury took place on 20 September 1643 to the south of the town, around Skinner’s Green, Round Hill, and Wash Common.
		The Second Battle of Newbury was fought just over a year later on 27 October 1644, on the north side of Newbury, around Donnington Castle, now a ruin.
	www.sherriff-family.com /Newbury.htm (896 words)

	Berkshire History: The First Battle of Newbury
		First blood was shed at Aldbourne in Wiltshire, when Prince Rupert, seconded by the Queen's lifeguards, struck Essex's rear and found tough resistance from Stapleton's Brigade.
		During the battle, Essex lost a trained band colonel and a few officers; but Charles lost many gallant and distinguished gentlemen, chief of whom were the Earls of Sunderland and Carnarvon, and the virtuous and talented Lord Falkland.
		He entered the city in triumph, having fought a battle that was in all ways honourable to his army, whether nominally a victory or defeat.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /articles/newbury_bat01.html (2058 words)

	1643: The Siege of Gloucester&the First Battle of Newbury
		1643: The Siege of Gloucesterandthe First Battle of Newbury
		After the capture of Bristol by the Royalists in July 1643, Prince Maurice and Lord Carnarvon were sent to attack remaining Parliamentarian towns in the south-west.
		Most painful of all to the King was the death of Viscount Falkland, his Secretary of State, who is said to have ridden deliberately to his death on Round Hill, in despair at the horror of civil war.
	www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /military/1643-gloucester-newbury.htm (1276 words)

	English Civil War Battles - Quick Quiz
		The first main battle was the Battle of Edgehill in October 1642.
		The Battle of Adwalton Moor was a victory for Parliament.
		The Battle of Naseby was fought in 1643.
	www.historyonthenet.com /Civil_War/battlesquickquiz.htm (124 words)

	Essex, Robert Devereux, 3d earl of - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After 1620, Essex followed a military and naval career, and from 1626 he was associated with the parliamentary opposition to Charles I.
		He was second in command of the royal army in the first of the Bishops' Wars in Scotland (1639) and was made privy councilor (1641), but Charles could not keep his allegiance thereafter.
		Essex commanded the parliamentary forces at the battle of Edgehill (1642).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-essexr13.html (310 words)

	The English Civil War Society of America Home Page
		The regiment's most famous action was the Battle of Roundway Down, where it charged Sir Arthur Hesilrige's Regiment of Horse, which were fully armored cuirassiers (three-quarter armor, known as "lobsters").
		Was the Lifeguard Troop, and formed a 'division' with Prince Rupert's Lifeguard of Horse at the Battle of Naseby.
		He recovered from his wound, and with the remnant of the regiment (perhaps 100) was still campaigning under Lord Gerard as late as Jan. 14th, 1646.
	www.ecwsa.org /histkteprincemauricesregofhorse.html (519 words)

	Newbury Bypass Factfile: Third Battle of Newbury: A34 road campaign protest Berkshire, England
		Newbury - The Archaeology Bypass by Jill Eisele.
		Newbury Bypass Data show that 80% of the traffic in Newbury is local, FoE press release 21 Aug 1995.
		Newbury's local paper remodels David Rendel as an environmentalist: "one of the first scientists to study the threat to the ozone layer, a long time before the danger of pollution was generally known".
	newburybypass.ukrivers.net /factfile.html (10905 words)

	Places of Interest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		During the medieval period, Newbury appears to have had a somewhat unremarkable history.
		In the Civil War, the town aligned itself with the Parliamentarians (Roundheads), but the town was captured by Royalists after the First Battle of Newbury, in 1643.
		At the start of the 21st Century, Newbury finds itself at the heart of one of the most economically prosperous regions in Europe.
	www.clicknewbury.com /location/history.html (291 words)

	§8. "The Mistress". III. Writers of the Couplet. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Mistress first appeared in 1647, and was reprinted in 1656 as part of a four-fold collection of poems.
		His preface to the collected edition represents him as about to quit the exercise of poetry, and desirous to preserve all his writings which were worth preserving.
		Part of a poem on the war in three books “reaching as far as the first Battle of Newbury,” was printed in 1679.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/217/0308.html (678 words)

	A Road To Nowhere
		The existing A34 route around Newbury town centre was built as a dual-carriageway bypass in the 1960s.
		Their predicted daily traffic count of 78,000 on the A34 in Newbury without a bypass for the year 2010 is clearly unrealistic.
		If built, the Newbury bypass would be one of the most environmentally destructive road schemes in the country.
	www.foe.co.uk /archive/newbury/brief_jan.html (1755 words)

	The first Civil War, 1642-46
		The indecisive Battle of Edgehill had left the road to London open, but Charles procrastinated and by the time he marched on the City, its defences had been completed.
		The Royalist army intercepted the relievers under Essex at the First Battle of Newbury (20 September 1643) and forced them to fight.
		At the Battle of Naseby, 14 June 1645, the New Model Army crushed the outnumbered and outmaneuvered Royalist army.
	history.wisc.edu /sommerville/361/361-27.htm (1621 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1643 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		May 19 - Battle of Rocroi: French victory over the Spanish at Rocroi, France.
		July 13 - English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down - In England, Lord Henry Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller.
		The Royalist forces supporting Charles I in the English Civil War win the Battle of Adwalton Moor and gain control of Yorkshire.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /1643 (518 words)

	First Battle of Newbury, 20 September 1643
		Battle in the English Civil War, following on from the siege of Gloucester.
		Even so, the King's men were soon forced to retreat into Newbury, and suffered heavy casualties, including the death of Viscount Falkland, and the next day Essex was able to march by without real danger, the Royalist's now having no powder with which to stop him.
		This was the last major battle of the war to be fought entirely by Englishmen.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/battles_newbury1st.html (285 words)

	TABLE OF CONTENTS
		An obstinate battle was fought there (September 20), in which Falkland threw away the life of which he was weary, and the City trained bands showed the benefit of practising postures in the artillery garden by repulsing Rupert's horse on an open heath.
		The importance of the document resides in its first clause as to religion, and in the understanding (not expressed, but already arrived at) that the Scots were to send an army to the assistance of the English Parliament- at the expense of,£30,000 a month, to be paid by the English.
		Of Pym it may be said that he was the first great Parliamentary statesman of modern times, the first who by the combination of experience and intellect, elevation of character, firmness of purpose, practical insight, and oratorical power, gained a complete ascendancy over a popular assembly.
	www.uni-mannheim.de /mateo/camenaref/cmh/cmh410.html (15372 words)

	Search Results for "Newbury"
		He was taken as a child to Newbury, Mass., and was graduated from Harvard in 1671.
		Deloney's chief works are three prose narratives-Jack of Newbury, Thomas of Reading, and The Gentle Craft (all c.1597)-relating...
		...he is supposed to have deliberately allowed himself to be killed at the battle of Newbury.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Newbury (232 words)

	The History of St George's
		The battle was perhaps a pivotal moment for the Parliamentarians.
		The Royalists had reached Newbury first (on September 19th) and set up their positions on the common, digging in their cannons overnight.
		Thus starts the story of St George the Martyr, named after England's patron soldier-saint and built to commemorate the fallen of the First World War as well as those who had perished on both sides in the carnage of 1643 (some estimates are of 6,000 dead in that one day).
	www.st-george-newbury.org /history.htm (1212 words)

	UK Indymedia \| Newbury Bypass Ten Years On - (10yrs since work started - reunion) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The start of work heralded the most full-on phase of the '3rd Battle of Newbury', Britain's biggest ever road protest, which saw over thirty different tree camps set up to oppose the road and around one thousand arrests.
		We must change direction, and Newbury is an example of a failed twentieth century transport policy that must never be repeated".
		Local campaigners battled against the road throughout the 1980s, their efforts culminating in a public inquiry in 1988 (with a minor follow-up inquiry in 1992).
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/regions/oxford/2006/01/330980.html (550 words)

	UK Battlefields Resource Centre - The Civil Wars
		» Battle of Stow on the Wold - 1646
		Battle of Stow on the Wold - 1646
		The first military action was in the Bishops Wars, between Scotland and England in 1638 - 1640, culminating in the battle of Newburn (Northumberland).
	battlefieldstrust.com /resource-centre/civil-war/battleview.asp?... (226 words)

	England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The First Battle of Newbury took place on September 20th 1643.
		After the Battle of Edgehill, Charles I established his headquarters at Oxford.
		In Berkshire, Charles I placed his troops at Newbury to cut off the Parliamentarian advance towards London.
	www.heritagesites.eu.com /england/newbur1.htm (156 words)

	Earldom of Carnarvon - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		CARNARVON The earldom of Carnarvon was created in 1628 for Robert Dormer, Baron Dormer of Wyng (c.
		1610-1643), who was killed at the first battle of Newbury whilst fighting for Charles I., and it became extinct on the death of his son Charles, the 2nd earl, in 1709.
		From 1714 to 178 9 it was held by the family of Brydges, dukes of Chandos and marquesses of Carnarvon, and in 1793 Henry Herbert, Baron Dorchester (1741-1811), was created earl of Carnarvon.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Earldom_Of_Carnarvon (398 words)

	Sir Thomas Blackwell's Regiment of Foote - Regimental History
		With little time to draw breath the Regiment moved across county to Newbury where, on 20th September 1643, they took part in the first battle of Newbury, in which the Royalists unsuccessfully tried to prevent the Earl of Essex's forces from returning to London.
		On 27th October at the second battle of Newbury they fought in Sir George Lisle's tertio which fortified Shaw House, to the East of the town, which was the scene of heavy fighting.
		The battle which followed on September 20th was bloody and inconclusive, since Essex was able to withdraw with his depleted army towards London.
	www.blackwells.ndo.co.uk /then_now.htm (1913 words)

	Friends of the Earth: Press Releases: 2003: The Newbury Bypass Five Years On
		Five years after the opening of the Newbury bypass, one of the most controversial road-building projects of recent years, the new road has not solved the town's traffic problems, Friends of the Earth said today.
		Anecdotal evidence suggests Newbury town centre is just as congested at peak time as before the bypass opened.
		Adrian Foster-Fletcher of Newbury Friends of the Earth, a local businessman who was a leading light in the campaign against the bypass, said:
	www.foe.co.uk /resource/press_releases/the_newbury_bypass_five_ye.html (411 words)

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		You know how it is… you want to lose weight after the first child but before you can get it all together here comes child number two.
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