# Holman's Bridge

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{{Short description|Bridge in Buckinghamshire, England}}
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thumbnail|right|'Within are deposited the bones of 247 persons, who were discovered in AD 1818 buried in a field at Holman's Bridge near Aylesbury. From the history and appearance of the place where they were found it is concluded to be the remains of the officers and men who perished in an engagement fought in AD 1642 fought between the troops of K Charles I under the command of Prince Rupert and the garrison who held Aylesbury for the Parliament.'
'''Holman's Bridge''' is a [brick](/source/brick)-built [bridge](/source/bridge) on the [A413](/source/A413_road) to the north of [Aylesbury](/source/Aylesbury) in [Buckinghamshire](/source/Buckinghamshire), [England](/source/England).  It is where the [A413 road](/source/A413_road) crosses the [River Thame](/source/River_Thame).  Aylesbury's first [Charter of Incorporation](/source/Charter_of_Incorporation) in 1554 marked Holman's Bridge as the northernmost boundary of the town.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/bkm/Aylesbury/charter/charter.html |title=Text of the Charter of Incorporation |access-date=9 December 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070718164404/http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Aylesbury/charter/charter.html |archive-date=18 July 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==History==
It was the location, in 1642, of the [Battle of Aylesbury](/source/Battle_of_Aylesbury), where although heavily outnumbered a [Parliamentarian](/source/Roundhead) [garrison](/source/garrison) under [Sir William Balfour](/source/William_Balfour_(general)) took the town of Aylesbury from the [Royalist](/source/Cavalier) forces of [Prince Rupert](/source/Prince_Rupert_of_the_Rhine).<ref>[http://met.open.ac.uk/GENUKI/big/eng/BKM/Military/Civil_War/BattleOfAylesbury/nugent.html Account of the Battle of Aylesbury] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061220055857/http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Military/Civil_War/BattleOfAylesbury/nugent.html |date=20 December 2006 }}</ref>  After the battle the bodies of the dead were thrown into a common grave near the bridge.  In 1818 they were exhumed and their bones moved to a common grave in nearby [Hardwick](/source/Hardwick%2C_Buckinghamshire).<ref>[http://met.open.ac.uk/GENUKI/big/eng/BKM/Military/Civil_War/BattleOfAylesbury/index.html Genuki: The Battle of Aylesbury] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100804034048/http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Military/Civil_War/BattleOfAylesbury/index.html |date=2010-08-04 }}</ref>

In 2006 work began to add a wooden pedestrian bridge alongside the existing bridge to provide pedestrian access to the new Weedon Hill housing estate. The housing development is controversially being built on the tract of land where the battle took place.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/england/beds_bucks_and_herts BBC coverage of controversy over the Weedon Hill housing development]</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/photo_database/photodb_detail.asp?Counter=11298 Image of the common grave in Hardwick at Buckinghamshire Photographs]

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Category:Aylesbury
Category:Bridges in Buckinghamshire

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