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| CHER Number: | MCB17281 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Possible Artillery Bastion, Spring Common, Huntingdon |
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Summary
The location of a possible bastion dug to protect the Great North Road
| Grid Reference: | TL 235 724 |
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| Parish: | Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire |
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Monument Type(s):
- BULWARK (English Civil Wars - 1642 AD to 1651 AD)
Full description
1. As part of the sequence of defences dug during the English Civil War around Huntingdon, bastions were dug to emplace cannons along the moan accesses to the town. Jeffery's Map of 1768 marks a peculiar hedge line that looks like the corner of a bastion alongside the Great North Road. There is no evidence of this now and the exact location is unknown.
<1> Jeffrey, 1768, Map of Huntingdon (Map). SCB6694.
<2> Osborne, M., 1990, Cromwellian Fortifications in Cambridgeshire, pp.28-30 (Bibliographic reference). SCB9943.
<3> S L Sadler, 1995, A Royal Entertainment? Huntingdon, August 1645 (Bibliographic reference). SCB19860.
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Map: Jeffrey. 1768. Map of Huntingdon. |
| <2> | Bibliographic reference: Osborne, M.. 1990. Cromwellian Fortifications in Cambridgeshire. pp.28-30. |
| <3> | Bibliographic reference: S L Sadler. 1995. A Royal Entertainment? Huntingdon, August 1645. |
Related records
| MCB17283 | Related to: Battle of Huntingdon (1645) (Monument) |
| 02601 | Related to: Bowling green (site of) and possible artillery fort, Hinchingbrooke Road (Monument) |
| 02547 | Related to: Civil War battery at Clayton's Way (Monument) |
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