On Friday the Essex Regiment had a route march to Edgehill starting from Banbury with the drum and fife band just after 9.00am. A large number of people were in the Horse Fair and High Street to see the troops depart. Colonel Stockton accompanied the other mounted officers, and at Edgehill explained the positions of the contending armies at the battle of Edgehill, which were afterwards communicated to the men. The first halt was near Upton House and from there the troops afterwards engaged in movements in extended order along the ridge of the hill to Warmington, returning by the Warwick Road to Banbury.

Banbury Guardian, February 1915