Braddock (Cornish:Brodhek) is a village and (by the name of Broadoak) a civil parish in the Caradon district of Cornwall in England, United Kingdom. For the Cornish-English dialect see West Country dialects and List of Cornish dialect words. A civil parish in the United Kingdom is a unit of local government. Caradon is a local government district in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Cornwall ( Kernow ˈkɛɹnɔʊ is the most southwesterly county of England, on the Peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located According to the 2001 census it had a population of 124. The village is situated about 7 miles west of Liskeard, and 5 miles south-east of Bodmin. Liskeard ( IPA /lɪˈskɑd/ — correctly stressed on the second syllable but often wrongly on the first (Lys Kerwyd or Lyskerrys is an ancient stannary and Bodmin (Bosvenegh is a Town in Cornwall, United Kingdom, with a population of 12778 (2001 census
Braddock Down battle
The Battle of Braddock Down was a battle of the English Civil War which occurred on 19th January 1643 and was a crushing defeat for the parliamentarian army. The Battle of Braddock Down was a battle of the south-western campaign of the First English Civil War. The English Civil War (1642-1651 was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists. Sir Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton's royalist forces had been camped the night before the battle at nearby Boconnoc and were surprised when, in the morning on breaking camp, their vanguard of dragoons encountered enemy parliamentarian cavalry already deployed on the east side of Braddock Down. Ralph Hopton 1st Baron Hopton (1598 &ndash September 1652 was a Royalist commander in the English Civil War. Boconnoc (Boskennek is a village in the Caradon district of Cornwall, United Kingdom, about four miles east of Lostwithiel. General Ruthvin, the parliamentarian commander, had been unwilling to wait for the Earl of Stamford’s reinforcements to arrive at Liskeard and, perhaps wishing to claim the expected defeat of Hopton as his own, had marched out to challenge the royalist army. Liskeard ( IPA /lɪˈskɑd/ — correctly stressed on the second syllable but often wrongly on the first (Lys Kerwyd or Lyskerrys is an ancient stannary and
Braddock Down was in terms of scale a battle, but in terms of action was in some senses little more than a skirmish. The defeat of the parliamentarians was achieved with apparently little effort to the Royalists but at great cost to the enemy. Cornwall was placed back under Royalist control and Hopton’s reputation was secured.
There is some dispute over the exact location of the battlefield. The traditional site is partly within the parkland of Boconnoc, partly under pasture. Although the Down was open common grazing land at the time of the battle, the land to the west around Braddock church appears already to have been enclosed by 1643. There one can see examples of the typical Cornish hedges, stone faced banks surmounted by hedges, that bounded such enclosures in the 17th century. A Cornish hedge is a style of hedge found in Cornwall.A Cornish hedge has two sides which are built by placing huge stone blocks into the earth and packing them in Today, access to the site is difficult because there are no public footpaths and the roads that traverse the battlefield are narrow with high hedges.
Reading
- The Battle of Braddock Down 1643: by Stuart Peachey (Stuart Press, 1993). Stuart Peachey is a British historian specialising in the English Civil War and the history of food and clothing ISBN 1858040213
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