Battle of Stourbridge Heath

Battle of Stourbridge Heath
Part of the First English Civil War
Date26 March 1644
Location
Stourbridge Heath
52°27′04″N 2°09′10″W / 52.451164°N 2.152772°W / 52.451164; -2.152772
Result Royalist victory
Belligerents
Royalists Parliamentarians
Commanders and leaders
Sir Gilbert Gerard Colonel "Tinker" Fox
Stourbridge Heath
Edgbaston
Birmingham
Worcestershire now within West Midlands

The Battle of Stourbridge Heath (26 March 1644) was a skirmish that took place during the First English Civil War, in which a Parliamentarian contingent under the command of Colonel "Tinker" Fox was defeated by a larger Royalist force under the command of Sir Gilbert Gerard, Governor of Worcester.

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