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Henrietta Maria

Photograph at the Henrietta Maria blue plaque

Near this spot on 2nd July 1643, during the English Civil War, Colonel Thomas Tyldesley led a desperate cavalry charge over the famous 36-arched Trent Bridge to storm the town of Burton. The event being personally witnessed by Queen Henrietta Maria. For this exploit of signal valour, Thomas Tyldesley was subsequently knighted by King Charles I.

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Source: Open Plaques. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

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