By Jonathan White
St Mary’s Church in Acton is stepping back in time to honour the historic Battle of Nantwich with a series of events this Saturday January 24th.
They are running to coincide with the popular Holly Holy Day celebrations and the Sealed Knot’s parade and battle re-enactment in Nantwich.
Organisers are busy preparing for another “Battle of Nantwich” Holly Holy Day celebration which will take place on Saturday 24th January.
The Sealed Knot’s faithful troops will gather in the town to re-enact the battle that took place in 1644, marking the end of the siege of the town during the English Civil War.
Nantwich Museum is to host a Civil War exhibition as part of the Holly Holy Day Battle of Nantwich celebrations.
In 1643, the English Civil War arrived in Nantwich and by Christmas the town was under siege from the Royalist army.
“The Royal Rumble” exhibition opened today (January 7) at Nantwich Museum and runs until Saturday February 8.
The exhibition showcases the English Civil War collections of the Grosvenor Museum, Chester.
Organisers of the 2025 Battle of Nantwich re-enactment are appealing for more volunteers to help at the event.
The annual Holly Holy Day re-enactment takes place on Saturday 25th January.
Nantwich Museum have launched four Civil War talks for January 2025, which will all take place in the Museum’s Millennium Gallery.
They start on Thursday January 9th at 7pm with “Communication and Propaganda in the English Civil War” by Helen Cooke.
“English Civil War Comes to Nantwich” opens on Tuesday January 9 at Nantwich Museum.
The exhibition, which runs until Saturday February 3, outlines the war which arrived in the town in 1643 when it became a Parliamentarian garrison.
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Thousands of people gathered in Nantwich and Acton to enjoy the 50th anniversary of the “Battle of Nantwich” on Holly Holy Day.
Events took place in Acton and across the town, before the Sealed Knot parade down Welsh Row and the battle re-enactment on Mill Island in Nantwich.
by Jonathan White
Historical fiction author Charles Cordell will talk about his debut novel “God’s Vindictive Wrath” at Nantwich Bookshop on January 20.
The novel is set in the first weeks of the English Civil War in October 1642, Warwickshire, where 30,000 men gathered to determine the fate of nations and to pursue their own ideals and enmities through brutal and bloody combat.
By Jonathan White
The town is preparing to host the ‘Battle of Nantwich’ in and around Nantwich town centre and Mill Island on Saturday January 21.
This year is the 50th anniversary of the first Battle of Nantwich re-enactment.
By Jonathan White
St Mary’s Church in Acton, near Nantwich, have organised ‘Holly Holy Day’ events on Saturday January 21, on the day of The Sealed Knot Battle of Nantwich re-enactment.
The church will be open from 9am until 11.30am serving hot drinks and buttered toast.
A newly published downloadable booklet “Visiting the Nantwich English Civil War Battlefields” is now available from the Nantwich Museum.
The booklet by Keith Lawrence, Director of the Cheshire Civil War Centre at the museum, considers the four battles which took place in the area in 1643 and 1644, and details routes by which the sites can be visited.
By Jonathan White
Thousands of people lined the streets of Nantwich this weekend to enjoy the annual Battle of Nantwich & Winter Fayre.
The event culminated in The Sealed Knot staging a re-enactment of the Battle on Mill Island.
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