History On The Doorstep

A Blip continuing from yesterday’s walk, with the ground now drying out the moat is a good walk with a dog.

The main photo shows the entrance to the castle, closed due to Covid but normally a good day out.
Fascinating history, although hardly used in anger Pendennis was tested during the First Civil War (1642–6), when Falmouth was an important port for King Charles I’s army. In 1646 Pendennis was the last Royalist strongholds in the West Country and amongst the last in Britain to hold out against the Parliamentary army; about 1,000 soldiers and their dependents endured a five-month siege, agreeing an honourable surrender in August when their food supplies ran out.
Then until WWI and WWII Pendennis found itself used more as a garrison but what the Civil War siege did was, on the Restoration, elevate Royalist Falmouth above Parliamentarian Penryn as a port.