Description

8.3.74 BUDE-STRATTON STAMFORD HILL

5/218 Memorial to the Battle
- of Stamford Hill

- II

Memorial to the Battle of Stamford Hill. Erected in 1713 by Lord Lansdown using a
circa late C15 pinnacle re-used from a church tower. Stone rubble and granite.
Round-headed granite stone archway set on stone rubble walls. Archway surmounted
by crocketted pinnacle on moulded octagonal base. The Battle of Stamford Hill was
fought in May 1643 between the Royalist Cornish Army under Sir Ralph Hopton and
the Parliamentarians under Major General Chudleigh. The Cornish Army included Sir
Bevil Grenville and won the day in spite of being said to have been outnumbered by
more than two to one.

Listing NGR: SS2272307054

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 13 December 2016.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613887

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)