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| Bovey Heath 1646 | ||
| Jan 9 | Fairfax led his forces into the village of Bovey Tracey in
Devon. Crossing the bridge there he surprised some of Lord Wentworth's
Royalist cavalry and captured them.
The story goes that the captives had been playing cards when the Roundheads arrived. They threw their coins out of the windows and onto the ground, escaping through the back of the house while the Parliamentarians scrabbled to pick them up. They were caught and engaged later that day on Bovey Heath (Heathfield) and lost 400 horses and 7 regimental colours to the Roundheads. |
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| Memorial to an unknown Royalist Officer who fell near this spot at Bovey Tracey during the English Civil War. | ||