Historical place archive

West Country in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at West Country in England. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1655–1655

Historical events in West Country

1655

11 March 1655
Penruddock Rising
Joseph Wagstaffe · Government of England

Helps lead the royalist rising that fails in the West Country

Provenance

About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match England and West Country. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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