The Naseby Battlefield, Northamptonshire
There are two memorials to the Battle of Naseby, but it was discovered that the original and vastly larger memorial was actually in the wrong place. This much smaller version overlooks the countryside where much of the decisive battle of the English Civil War took place across the rolling Northamptonshire countryside between Naseby, Clipston and Sibbertoft.
The battle was fought on the foggy morning of 14th June 1645. After almost three years of fighting, the 14,000 strong Parliamentarian New Model Army took on the Royalist army of King Charles I comprising less than 9,000 men, in what would to be the final key battle of the war.
At Naseby the main Royalist military force was decimated and the king lost his best officers, seasoned troops and artillery. All that now remained was for the Parliamentarian armies to wipe out the last pockets of Royalist resistance, which it did within the year. As everyone knows, Charles I was eventually executed in 1649.
The Naseby Battlefield, Northamptonshire
There are two memorials to the Battle of Naseby, but it was discovered that the original and vastly larger memorial was actually in the wrong place. This much smaller version overlooks the countryside where much of the decisive battle of the English Civil War took place across the rolling Northamptonshire countryside between Naseby, Clipston and Sibbertoft.
The battle was fought on the foggy morning of 14th June 1645. After almost three years of fighting, the 14,000 strong Parliamentarian New Model Army took on the Royalist army of King Charles I comprising less than 9,000 men, in what would to be the final key battle of the war.
At Naseby the main Royalist military force was decimated and the king lost his best officers, seasoned troops and artillery. All that now remained was for the Parliamentarian armies to wipe out the last pockets of Royalist resistance, which it did within the year. As everyone knows, Charles I was eventually executed in 1649.