Naseby

Naseby, a Northamptonshire parish, 7 miles SW. of Market-Harborough. Here, on 14th June 1645, 7500 royalists under Charles I. and Prince Rupert were totally defeated by 14,000 parliamentarians under Fairfax and Cromwell, the king losing cannon, baggage, and 5000 prisoners. A 'blockhead obelisk,' which does not mark the battlefield, was erected in 1823 on the Naseby ridge (648 feet). See Gardiner's History of the Great Civil War (vol ii. 1889).