Battle of Cropredy Bridge

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Battle of Cropredy Bridge
Part of the First English Civil War
Date 29 June 1644 Location Cropredy, near Banbury, Oxfordshire Result Royalist victory
Belligerents
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

Cropredy Bridge

Oxford

Abingdon

Newbridge

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]