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Lincolnshire HER

Name:Civil War skirmish
HER Number:MLI86425
Type of record:Monument

Summary

A small skirmish at Waddington and Harmston during the Civil War in 1644.

Parish:HARMSTON, NORTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE
WADDINGTON, NORTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

Full description

63301
A small skirmish on 12 January 1644 when Royalist cavalry from Newark caught by surprise some three units of Parliamentarian cavalry resting in Waddington and Harmston. The location of the skirmish is unrecorded but see record 63302 for a concentration of musket balls in Waddington. {1}


<1> Gerald A.J. Hodgett, 1975, Tudor Lincolnshire, p.172 (Bibliographic Reference). SLI6089.

Monument Types

  • BATTLEFIELD (12 January 1644, Post Medieval - 1644 AD to 1644 AD)

Sources and further reading

<1>Bibliographic Reference: Gerald A.J. Hodgett. 1975. Tudor Lincolnshire. p.172.

Related records

MLI86426Related to: Musket Balls, Waddington (Monument)