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Ridge and furrow below Edgehill

"Where the path comes out of the woodland there is a wonderful view across the Vale. The village of Radway lies at the bottom of the slope, with the battlefield beyond. The MOD depot with its reinforced ‘igloos’ for munitions storage, all encompassed by a high security fence, is clearly visible, marking the right half of the parliamentarian deployment. In the pasture field in which you stand there are ridge and furrow earthworks from the open field system, which was still functioning at the time of the battle, each ridge representing an original individual ownership strip. One could not ask for a better context within which to try to appreciate the battlefield landscape as it was in 1642. Take away almost all the hedgerows beyond the village and replace them with the unenclosed strip system that you see before you, which will have been part ploughed and part fallow in October 1642, and you have an open field landscape ideal for the ‘chessboard’ deployment of 17th century armies. But on the far right and left of your view the landscape was already fully enclosed at the time of the battle and so there one needs very little imagination to conjure up the landscape of 1642". This is how the Battlefields Trust Resource Centre site at Link describes this view (seen here at dusk) from the edge of Castle Wood down the Lias scarp. A footpath follows the edge of the field to the southern edge of Ratley.