The Battle of Hopton Heath By J. T. Willmore after George Cattermole
Date
19 March 1643
Location
Hopton Heath, Staffordshire
Result
Inconclusive
Belligerents
Royalists
Parliamentarians
Commanders and leaders
Earl of Northampton † Henry Hastings Sir Thomas Byron
Sir John Gell Sir Willam Brereton
Strength
1,200[1]
1,400[1]
Hopton Heath
Lichfield
Stafford
Tamworth
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First English Civil War
1642
1st Hull
Marshall's Elm
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Babylon Hill
Powick Bridge
Kings Norton
Edgehill
Aylesbury
Brentford
Turnham Green
Farnham Castle
Piercebridge
Tadcaster
1st Exeter
Muster Green
1st Bradford
Chichester
1643
Braddock Down
Leeds
1st Middlewich
Hopton Heath
Seacroft Moor
Camp Hill
Lichfield
Ripple Field
Reading
Sourton Down
1st Wardour Castle
Stratton
Wakefield
1st Worcester
Chalgrove Field
Adwalton Moor
2nd Bradford
Burton Bridge
Lansdowne
Roundway Down
1st Bristol
Gainsborough
Gloucester
2nd Hull
Aldbourne Chase
1st Newbury
Winceby
Olney Bridge
1st Basing House
Heptonstall
2nd Wardour Castle
Alton
Bramber Bridge
Arundel
2nd Middlewich
1644
Nantwich
Newcastle
1st Lathom House
Newark
Boldon Hill
Stourbridge Heath
Cheriton
Selby
Lyme Regis
York
Lincoln
1st Oxford
Bolton
2nd Basing House
Tipton Green
Oswestry
Cropredy Bridge
Marston Moor
Gunnislake New Bridge
Ormskirk
Lostwithiel
Tippermuir
1st Aberdeen
Montgomery Castle
1st Chester
1st Taunton
Carlisle
2nd Newbury
1645
Inverlochy
High Ercall Hall
Weymouth
Scarborough Castle
2nd Taunton
Auldearn
3rd Taunton
2nd Oxford
Leicester
Naseby
Alford
2nd Lathom House
Langport
Hereford
Kilsyth
2nd Bristol
Philiphaugh
2nd Chester
Rowton Heath
Sherburn in Elmet
3rd Basing House
Annan Moor
Denbigh Green
Shelford House
Newark
1646
Bovey Heath
Torrington
Stow-on-the-Wold
3rd Oxford
2nd Aberdeen
Lagganmore
2nd Worcester
The battle of Hopton Heath was a part of the First English Civil War, fought on Sunday 19 March 1643 between Parliamentarian forces led by Sir John Gell and Sir William Brereton and a Royalist force under Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton.[2]
^ abBattle of Hopton Heath (1643).
^Castelow.
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