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the parliamentarian position as seen from the old Bath road - Photo: Chris Scott

Battle of Roundway Down 1643

Sunday 8th June 2025

Join the Wessex Region for a morning walk led by Chris Gravestock around the battlefield of Roundway Down where royalist cavalry decisively defeated a parliamentarian army and rescued a beleaguered force in Devizes, opening up the West for the King.

Meet: 10.00am, at the car park above Devizes near to the Roundway White Horse at https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3768073,-1.9804329,151m/data=!3m1!1e3!5m2!1e4!1e3,
or OS Grid Ref: SU 01438 64288, or (What3Words: nuzzling.ethic.marine).   

The walk is approx. 6km on level ground, but can be muddy in places when wet. 

For more information and to let the walk leader know you are coming, please contact Chris Gravestock using the details below.


 

 
 

For further information.

 
The Battlefields Resource Centre