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Battle of Naseby

Battle of Naseby was a battle fought on 14 June 1645 at Naseby, in what is now United Kingdom. It was part of the English Civil War, which ran from 1642 to 1651. The recorded result: Parliamentarian victory. Recorded strength: 6,000 horse, 7,000 foot, 676 dragoons against 4,100 horse, 3,300 foot.

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A Digital Photograph of the site of the Battle of Naseby
A Digital Photograph of the site of the Battle of Naseby. Stavros1 at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Fought14 June 1645
WhereNaseby, United Kingdom52.416N, 0.995W
OutcomeParliamentarian victory
BelligerentsParliamentariansagainstRoyalists
Casualties and losses200 killed; 535 woundedand1,000 killed or wounded; 4,500 captured
Battlefield todayBattle of Naseby battlefieldHistoric England entry 1000023, 452 ha
Part ofEnglish Civil War1642 to 1651

Where it sits in the English Civil War

Siege of Portsmouth, 1642Battle of Kings Norton, 1642Siege of Chichester, 1642First Battle of Middlewich, 1643Battle of Ripple Field, 1643Battle of Sourton Down, 1643Battle of Roundway Down, 1643Siege of Basing House, 1643Battle of Alton, 1643Battle of Boldon Hill, 1644Relief of Newark, 1644Battle of Cheriton, 1644Siege of York, 1644Bolton Massacre, 1644Battle of Cropredy Bridge, 1644Battle of Marston Moor, 1644Battle of Ormskirk, 1644Battle of Weymouth, 1645Battle of Naseby, 1645Siege of Bristol, 1645Battle of Rowton Heath, 1645Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold, 1646Protestant Revolution, 168916421689Battle of Naseby, 1645
23 placed engagements of the English Civil War in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date14 June 1645
PlaceNaseby, United Kingdom
52.416N, 0.995W
KindBattle, early modern
Strength6,000 horse, 7,000 foot, 676 dragoons4,100 horse, 3,300 foot
Casualties and losses200 killed; 535 wounded1,000 killed or wounded; 4,500 captured
Commanders
Battle of NasebyBattle of Naseby5 km52.416N, 0.995W
The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. The dashed outline is the registered battlefield area (Historic England). Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

The ground today

Relief of the ground around the site of Battle of Naseby
Relief within about 10.0 km of the site, contours every 25 m. Copernicus DEM GLO-30, ESA.
Satellite view of the site of Battle of Naseby today
The same ground from Sentinel-2 on 2025-07-12. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025.

The recorded site stands at about 157 m; within 10.0 km the ground runs from 0 to 201 m, 201 m of relief, hilly country and today it is 47% cropland, 40% grassland, 10% tree cover.

cropland: 47%grassland: 40%tree cover: 10%cropland 47%grassland 40%tree cover 10%
west to east, 10.0 km0 to 165 mnorth to south, 10.0 km100 to 188 m
Elevation from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, Airbus); land cover from ESA WorldCover 2021 (CC BY 4.0), within about 5 km of the recorded site. Computed, not recorded.

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Combat data (CDB90)

Attacker: ENG ROY ARMYDefender: ENG PARL ARMY
Strength9,00013,000
Casualties6,000 (66.7%)1,000 (7.7%)
Mission accomplishment, 1 to 1049
Outcomedefender won
Duration1 day
Front width1.6 km1.6 km
Attacker advanced-0.3 km

From the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency Database of Battles (CDB90, battle 25), public domain, in the CC0 tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold. Figures are the database's estimates, compiled in 1990 from published histories, and may differ from the Wikipedia infobox above.

Historic England registers this as the Battle of Naseby battlefield (entry 1000023), 452 hectares, under the Open Government Licence.

Battle of Naseby is one of 1,553 engagements of the 17th century in the atlas and one of 753 in present-day United Kingdom.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q949724, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Naseby, revision 1383177143, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Battlefield boundary and area from Historic England (Open Government Licence). Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.