Chalgrove, Oxfordshire

A Lancaster of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight--PA474 (HW-R)--overflies Chalgrove on her way to the Bournemouth Airshow Festival. She is one of two Lancasters still flying and appeared in the film 'The Guns Of Navarone'.

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Chalgrove, Bygone Era, Transport, Remembrance, Oxfordshire

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Chalgrove, Oxfordshire

Memorial to Col.John Hamden mortally wounded at the Battle of Chalgrove during the Civil War. The battle of Chalgrove, which was little more than a skirmish, took place on the morning of 18th June 1643. It was one of a number of small scale actions between Essex's army and the Oxford Royalist forces that followed the fall of Reading. Prince Rupert had learned of a parliamentary pay convoy of £21,000 heading for Thame. Unable to resist such a prize Rupert headed to intercept it with a force of 1,000 horse, 500 infantry and 350 dragoons.

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Chalgrove, Remembrance, Buildings and Structures, Trees and Woodlands, Oxfordshire

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