On Sunday, 9 July 1648, seven months prior to the execution of King Charles, the Earl and his army of approximately 400 men entered St Neots in the county of Huntingdonshire.

Upon the outskirts of Bedford the group turned eastward towards St Neots town.

Colonel Dalbier advised on the strategic position of St Neots and the fact that the joint remnants of Buckingham and Holland ’ s forces had increased sufficiently since the retreat from the Roundheads at Kingston.

The Earl of Holland who, it was said, " had better faculty at public address than he had with a sword ," joined the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Peterborough in addressing the principal residents and townsfolk of St Neots.

The Dragoons, equipped with musket and sword, crossed St Neots ’ bridge before the Royalists were fully prepared.

The Battle of St Neots had begun.

It is recorded that he offered surrender of himself, his army and the town of St Neots, on condition that his life was spared.

The remaining Royalist prisoners were locked in St Neots parish church overnight, then taken to Hitchin the following morning.

He pleaded his crime was not capital, and claimed that he had surrendered St Neots town on the condition that his life would be spared.

On the morning of his execution, 9 March, before Westminster Hall, the Earl walked unaided, but spoke to people along the way, declaring his surrender at St Neots was on condition that his life would be spared.

The townspeople of St Neots, who apparently were neutral during the entire conflict, continued their peaceful existence.

A description of the events at St Neots, and Holland's subsequent imprisonment, appears in the 1840 edition ( Oxford ), vol.

* An anonymous chronicler at Bury St Edmunds, working in the second quarter of the 12th century, produced a compilation now known as The Annals of St Neots.

# High Barnet, Hatfield, Baldock, Biggleswade, St Neots, Oakham

# Cambridge, St Neots, Northampton, Rugby, Coventry

* Meaney, Audrey L. " St. Neots, Æthelweard and the Compilation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: a Survey.

Passing through Bedford, St Neots, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Hemingford Grey and St Ives, it reaches Earith, where there is a short tidal section connected by the Old Bedford River and New Bedford River to the lower river at Denver.

The Act covered large tracts of England, but no improvements were made to the region through which the Great Ouse flowed until 1618, Arnold Spencer and Thomas Girton started to improve the river between St Ives and St Neots.

Railways arrived in the area rapidly after 1845, reaching Cambridge, Ely, Huntingdon, King's Lynn, St Ives, St Neots and Tempsford by 1850.

The Restoration Society campaign included the establishment of the Bedford to St. Neots Canoe Race in 1952 which helped publicise the case for navigational restoration.

The Great Ouse at St Neots

* Bury St Edmunds railway station in Suffolk, England

The rest of the link, from north Kent to St Pancras railway station in London, opened in 2007.

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This was followed by the formation of St. John Ambulance in 1877, based on the principles of the Knights Hospitaller, to teach first aid, and numerous other organization joined them with the term first aid first coined in 1878 as civilian ambulance services spread as a combination of " first treatment " and " national aid " in large railway centres and mining districts as well as with police forces.

* Lincoln St. Marks railway station, Lincoln, England

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* A metro railway line that would start at St James, continue through to the CBD and onwards to Maroubra.

The main part, with its trademark high walls and watchtowers, is located on one side of the road from Finglas to the city centre, while the other part, " St. Paul's ," is located across the road and beyond a green space, between two railway lines.

The VR tram was called a " Street Railway " and was built using the Victorian Railways broad gauge instead of the cable tramway standard gauge of, and connected it with the St Kilda railway station, to allow trams to be moved along the St Kilda railway line for servicing at Jolimont Yard.

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The St Kilda and Port Melbourne railway lines were converted to light rail lines in 1987, with the lines closed on 1 July 1987 and 11 October 1987 respectively.

The advance further north in the XVIII Corps area retook and held the north end of St Julien and the area south-east of Langemarck while XIV Corps captured Langemarck and the Wilhelm ( third ) Line north of the Ypres – Staden railway near the Kortebeek.

Russia's first railway was opened in 1838, a 16 mile line between St. Petersburg and the palace at Tsarskoye Selo.

The new Caernarfon railway station in St. Helen's Road is the northern terminus of the narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway.

** King's Cross Thameslink railway station a former railway station connecting with King's Cross station and King's Cross St Pancras tube station

The first, unveiled by then Prime Minister Tony Blair stands outside Huddersfield railway station in St George's Square, Huddersfield.

Since 1911, a railway ( formerly part of the St. Gotthard main route ) runs along its eastern shore past Walchwil to Arth at its south end, which was connected initially by a steam tramway with the Arth-Goldau station of the St Gotthard line.

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The gardens are by road from the town and railway station of St Austell, and are principally in the civil parish of St Ewe, although elements of the eastern gardens are in Mevagissey parish.