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| CHER Number: | 09876 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible Civil War Fort, Elford |
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Summary
Posible location of an English Civil War artillery fort or redoubt.
| Grid Reference: | TL 501 722 |
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| Parish: | Stretham, East Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire |
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Monument Type(s):
- FORT? (English Civil Wars - 1642 AD to 1651 AD)
Full description
1. Mound located where the A10 Cambridge to Ely road crosses the Old West River S of Stretham. Possibly a flanked redoubt but Taylor suggests that if so, its builders were ignorant of the principles of fortification underlying such a construction. Certainly the burghers of Stretham claimed the costs of digging gravel and constructing a bulwark. Mound much altered by gravel workings now.
2. A badly damaged raised mound may be the remains of a Civil War flanked redoubt.
<1> Osborne, M., 1990, Cromwellian Fortifications in Cambridgeshire, p. 26 (Bibliographic reference). SCB9943.
<2> 1987, Fortress Study Group Vol 15: p55 (Article in serial). SCB66784.
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Bibliographic reference: Osborne, M.. 1990. Cromwellian Fortifications in Cambridgeshire. p. 26. |
| <2> | Article in serial: 1987. Fortress Study Group Vol 15: p55. |
Related records
| 01770 | Related to: Belsar's Hill (Monument) |
| MCB17293 | Related to: Possible Site of Civil War Redoubt, Aldreth High Bridge, Haddenham (Monument) |
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