History – Primary material
The Boscobel Tracts: Relating to the Escape of Charles the Second After the Battle of Worcester and His Subsequent Adventures; edited by J Hughes
The Flight of the King; Allan Fea
History – Secondary material
Charles II and his Escape into Exile: Capture the King, Martyn R Beardsley (2019)
The Escape of Charles II; Richard Ollard (1966)
To Catch a King – Charles II’s Great Escape; Charles Spenser (2017)
The Wanderings of King Charles II in Staffordshire and Shropshire after Worcester Fight, September 3rd 1651 – H P Kingston (1933)
The Monarch’s Way
The Monarch’s Way, Book 1 – The Midlands (Green Book); Trevor Antill
The Monarch’s Way, Book 2 – The Cotswold, The Mendips and the Sea (Yellow Book); Trevor Antill
The Monarch’s Way, Book 3 – The South Coast, The Downs … and Escape (Red Book); Trevor Antill
These excellent guidebooks are available for purchase from here.
Links
- Official site of The Monarch’s Way Association
- Recent Ramblers article
- Oldie article
- Blog about the route by Gillian Bagwell, author of The King’s Mistress, a novel about the escape
- Photos of the route
- The Monarch’s Way Fastest Known Time (since beaten) – How Lee-Stuart Evans completed the route faster than Charles
- An Integrated Network of Southern English Paths – a page about a 1,300-mile path network by the author of this site