Landscape
The ground on which Royalist and Parliamentarian were one day to shed their blood, the now gently contoured landscape of the English Midlands was, in the Jurassic era, the bed of a shallow sea. The stuff of clays, which form our 'heavy' soils, and iron bearing sandstone, which gives us our better draining land, were laid down as marine sediment around 150 million years ago.
Since that far distant time the weathering and erosive effects of ice and water and a smearing of glacial deposits have formed the characteristic undulations which bestow on the landscape the congenial demeanour of the 'Shires'.
Though not physically imposing the topography of the Midlands has influenced man's actions to a significant degree; the course of the Battle itself was, in part, dictated by this landform.
