Heritage Open Days is England’s largest festival of history and culture. It’s your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences – and it’s all free.

To encourage interest in battlefield heritage, the Battlefields Trust and its partner organisations are arranging a series of battlefield walks in September 2026, including this walk covering the first Battle of Newbury.

Join local guide Dave Stubbs to explore this pivotal Civil War battle where the Earl of Essex’s parliamentarian army managed to to hold off the royalists and then return to London after relieving the siege of Gloucester.

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