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View of the battlefield from the royalist side

Battle of Roundway Down 1643

Sunday 27th September 2026

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, can be muddy in places when wet.

For further information please contact Chris Gravestock using the details below. Chris would be grateful if you could let him know if you intended to come on the walk 

 

 
 

For further information.

 
The Battlefields Resource Centre