You Are Here - Naseby Battlefield Trail, Cromwell Memorial - Naseby, Northamptonshire - 'You Are Here' Maps on Waymarking.com

A You Are Here map and information board at the Cromwell Memorial, at the site of the Battle of Naseby, on the Naseby Battlefield Trail.

"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 and Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

Cavalry patrols clashed on the evening of 13 June in Naseby village. Early on 14 June Fairfax marched the New Model Army to meet at Naseby windmill, now the Obelisk. By 8.00am King Charles and Rupert had moved the royal army to a position on the ridge between East Farndon and Little Oxendon. Both sides wished to fight and Fairfax ordered his army to a position on the ridge to the south of this place. Rupert saw the movement and brought the Royalists to Dust Hill, across the valley to the north.

The Battle Commences -
This area was mostly open ground, but contained by an ancient parish boundary hedge around Sulby to the west and a rabbit warren (on today’s Lodge Hill) and boggy ground to the east. Lieutenant General of Horse Oliver Cromwell put dragoons behind Sulby Hedges. Their musket fire caused the royalist cavalry on the western flank to charge, forcing many of parliament’s horse to flee. The royalist foot attacked and almost broke through Fairfax’s line but it stubbornly resisted. Cromwell's troopers routed the horse opposing them and then fell on the left flank of the royalist foot. Despite Rupert’s Bluecoat Regiment standing like a wall of brass' on the slope just west of the road to the north, Fairfax’s counter-attacks succeeded in driving the royalists back. Part of the royalist army went on fighting, all the way they had come that moming, in a battle reaching a climax on Wadborough Hill."

An excellent account of the battle can be found here - (visit link)