The countdown begins: mud, fighting, beer and song! The Battle of Nantwich is this weekend
Thousands of people and hundreds of soldiers will be descending on Nantwich in Cheshire this Saturday for the re-enactment event known as ‘Holly Holy Day’. The event marks the Battle of Nantwich of 1644 – a key battle during the first English Civil War when a Parliamentarian army under Thomas “Black Tom” Fairfax defeated the besieging Royalist force of…