A Royalist officer leading his men. English Civil War reenactors at a recreation of the siege and fall of Corfe Castle in 1646. Dorset, England, UK.


Lord Hopton’s Regiment of Foote, an English Civil War re-enactment group, dramatises the siege and fall of Corfe Castle, which took place during 1645-1646. The members of the group assemble together regularly from all parts of the country to put on these colourful displays.


Size: 4287px × 2848px
Location: Corfe Castle, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB.
Photo credit: © Andrew Wood / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: -enactment, -enactor, -enactors, 17th, andrew, army, band, bandoleer, bandoleers, battle, battles, belt, belts, black, blue, breast, breeches, brim, britain, british, buckle, buckles, cap, cartridge, castle, castles, cavalier, cavaliers, century, civil, clothes, clothing, collar, color, colour, conflict, conflicts, corfe, costume, costumes, dorset, doublet, england, english, equipment, fashion, felt, flamboyant, flintlock, flintlocks, foot, foote, fort, forts, gauntlet, gauntlets, gb, glove, gloves, great, hat, hats, helmet, historic, historical, history, hoptons, image, infantry, infantryman, infantrymen, isle, isles, kingdom, king’, lord, man, men, metal, military, montero, musket, musketeer, musketeers, officer, officers, outdoors, parliamentarian, parliamentarians, pike, pikeman, pikemen, pikes, pikestaff, pikestaffs, plate, plates, purbeck, purbecks, red, reenactment, reenactor, reenactors, regiment, roundheads, royalist, royalists, sash, siege, sieges, soldier, soldiers, south, southwest, style, uk, uniform, uniforms, united, war, warfare, wars, weapon, weapons, west, wide, wood, “1642-1651”, “1645-1646”