It is best known for having been the location of a Parliamentary gun-emplacement aimed at Walmgate Bar in the City Walls during the Siege of York in 1644.
Eventually, when Rupert and Newcastle had appealed to them, 3,000 men (with a mounted troop of 100 "Gentleman Volunteers") rejoined their colours and marched off about midday on 2 July, leaving 1,000 (the regiments of John Belasyse, Sir Thomas Glemham and Sir Henry Slingsby of Red House) to hold the city.
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