Battle of Stourbridge Heath

Battle of Stourbridge Heath
Part of the First English Civil War
Date 26 March 1644 Location Stourbridge Heath 52°27′04″N 2°09′10″W / 52.451164°N 2.152772°W / 52.451164; -2.152772 Result Royalist victory
Belligerents
Royalists	Parliamentarians
Commanders and leaders
Sir Gilbert Gerard	Colonel "Tinker" Fox

Stourbridge Heath

Edgbaston

Birmingham

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Worcestershire now within West Midlands

The Battle of Stourbridge Heath (26 March 1644) was a skirmish that took place during the First English Civil War, in which a Parliamentarian contingent under the command of Colonel "Tinker" Fox was defeated by a larger Royalist force under the command of Sir Gilbert Gerard, Governor of Worcester.^[1]