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Battle of Cropredy Bridge
Part of the First English Civil War
Date29 June 1644
Location
Cropredy, near Banbury, Oxfordshire
Result Royalist victory
Belligerents
Battle of Cropredy Bridge Royalists Parliamentarians
Commanders and leaders
Charles I Sir William Waller
Strength
5,000 horse
4,000 foot
(only part engaged)
5,000 horse
4,000 foot
(only part engaged)
Casualties and losses
Unknown 700
11 guns captured
Battle of Cropredy Bridge is located in Oxfordshire
Cropredy Bridge
Cropredy Bridge
Oxford
Oxford
Abingdon
Abingdon
Newbridge
Newbridge
Hanwell
Hanwell
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Oxfordshire and Cropredy Bridge

The Battle of Cropredy Bridge was fought on Saturday 29 June 1644 (9 July 1644 Gregorian) near Banbury, Oxfordshire during the First English Civil War. In the engagement, Sir William Waller and the Parliamentarian army failed to capture King Charles.

The site was placed on the Register of Historic Battlefields maintained by Historic England in 1995.[1]

  1. ^ "Battle of Cropredy Bridge 1644, 1000008 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 20 May 2022.

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