You Are Here - Naseby Battlefield Trail, Prince Rupert's Viewpoint - East Farndon, Northamptonshire
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A You Are Here map and information board at Prince Rupert's Viewpoint, East Farndon, set in the middle of the Northamptonshire countryside, commemorating the Battle of Naseby of 1645.
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Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/17/2019
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A You Are Here map and information board at Prince Rupert's Viewpoint, East Farndon, set in the middle of the Northamptonshire countryside, commemorating the Battle of Naseby of 1645.
"The Naseby Battlefield Project has created a battlefield trail which will take you to all the key parts of the approach, the battlefield itself and the Royalist retreat. At each of these spots shown on the below map, there is at least one information panel and where possible a viewing platform, to give you the best possible view of the terrain."
SOURCE - (
visit link) [with map and audio clips about the battle]
The board tells us:
"The decisive battle of the English Civil War was fought in the fields of Naseby, Sulby, Sibbertoft and Clipston parishes on Saturday 14 June, 1645. The Parliamentarian New Model Army, under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax, defeated the Royalist army, commanded by King Charles I Prince Rupert of the Rhine.
Cavalry patrols clashed on the evening of 13 June in Naseby village. Early on Saturday 14 June Fairfax marched the New Model Amy north from Guilsborough towards Naseby to meet at Naseby windmill. King Charles and Rupert brought the royal army to this position on the ridge between East Farndon and Little Oxendon by about 8.00am. The position was secured by a thick hedgeat Little Oxendon, and steep drops to the westand north, down to the Welland valley. It was strong for static defence but poor for tactical movement.
Rupert's View -
The view to the south differs today with the building of the A14 road, the communications mast next to it and the addition of a spire to Naseby church tower. More importantly, trees, woods and enclosure hedges have been planted. The landscape of 1645 had a few parish boundary hedges and very few trees. Rupert was unable to see Fairfax’s army at Naseby windmill (now the Obelisk) because it is beyond the higher ground of the ridge on the horizon. When Fairfax ordered the move westwards his army marched over the ridge into view. Rupert immediately hurried his troops west over Moot Hill, to meet them across Broadmoor, between Naseby and Sibbertoft."