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The Battle of Marston Moor was fought on 2 July 1644, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms of 1639–1653. [a] The combined forces of the English Parliamentarians under Lord Fairfax and the Earl of Manchester and the Scottish Covenanters under the Earl of Leven defeated the Royalists commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine and the Marquess of Newcastle.
The moors are dotted with many ruins, such as Higher Hempshaw's. The rounded moorland hills of the West Pennine Moors are generally lower in height than the higher moorland plateaux of the main Pennine range to the east. There are gritstone crags and steep escarpments creating dramatic landforms with V-shaped valleys drained by fast-flowing ...
The moor is an upland farming landscape. The summit at Sough Top is 438 metres (1,437 ft) above sea level. [1] Five Wells chambered tomb. Five Wells is a Neolithic chambered tomb on Taddington Moor and it is a protected scheduled ancient monument. It was first excavated by the local archaeologist Thomas Bateman in 1846. He discovered the ...
Leveson's Regiment was detached from the garrison of Dudley Castle and had been present at the Relief of Newark [16] Molyneux's, Tyldesley's and Leveson's regiments of horse together totalled 800) Dragoons Colonel Henry Washington (500) [17] Sergeant-Major General of Foot Henry Tillier (captured) Sir John Girlington's Regiment [18] Prince ...
Burrow Mump is also known as St Michael's Borough or Tutteyate. [4] Both words 'burrow' and 'mump' mean hill. [5] There is also an alternative translation for the name 'burrows' deriving from 'burh helow' meaning 'the refuge fort' and munp meaning 'a hill' so this becomes 'the refuge fort on the hill', this is very near Lyng which is where one of the Burghal Hideage forts recorded for King ...
Ballyruin, (118 acres), Baile Ui Tuain (Ruane's townland) or Baile a'Ruadhain (place of the moorland). Here lie the ruins of the house occupied by the poet Angus na n-Aor O Dalaigh in 1610. Ballyroon Mountain (468 acres), Macha Damh (field of the bardic assemblies). On the west side is Doo LOugh Dubh Loch (black lake) and the ruins of a signal ...
Buckland Beacon is a granite tor and conical beacon, near to the village of Buckland-in-the-Moor on Dartmoor, England. It is well known for its Ten Commandments Stones, [1] which are inscribed on its south eastern edge. It stands at 382 metres (1,253 ft) above sea level, overlooking the Dart Valley.
The moor contains about 500 holdings with around 10,000 beef cows, 55,000 breeding ewes and 1,000 horses and ponies. [9] Most of the moor is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Bodmin Moor, North, [10] and has been designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), as part of Cornwall AONB. [11]