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Name: Battle of Edgehill
Campaign: Edgehill
War period: Civil War - 1642–1651
Outcome: No one won this Battle -
stale mate!
Country: England
County: Warwickshire
Where: Kineton / Radway
Terrain: Open Field
When: 23rd October 1642
Duration: Until nightfall (sunset was about 4:30pm)
Armies: Royalist army: nearly 15000 strong, nominally under Charles I; Parliamentarian army: just over 15000, under the Earl of Essex
Losses: 1000 dead and 2-3,000 wounded
Grid Reference: SP359493 (435900 249300)
OS Landranger map: 151
OS Explorer map: 206


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