The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Knottingley
West Yorkshire (Region), Yorkshire (County [UK]), England
View Larger MapDescription of institution: A town in the seventeenth century, now incorporated within the City of Wakefield. Oliver Cromwell took residence in Knottingley during the three Sieges of Pontefract Castle. Some of Cromwell's letters from Knottingley were published in Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, edited by Thomas Carlyle (1845).
URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knottingley People associated with this location: Cromwell, Oliver (25 Apr 1599 -03 Sep 1658) - Visited