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Battle of Seacroft Moor - 1643
Royalists: Lord George Goring
Parliamentarians: Sir Thomas Fairfax
Result: Royalist victory
Location: between the Cock Beck Valley & Seacroft
The Battle of Seacroft Moor, on 30 March 1643, was a decisive loss for the Parliamentary forces during the First Civil War. It took place near Seacroft, north east of Leeds, West Yorkshire. The battle reportedly turned the Cock Beck, which ran through the battlefield, red with the casualties' blood for several daysAs Sir Thomas Fairfax was instructed to capture Tadcaster, he fell back into the West Riding after failing to destroy the bridge over the Wharfe at Tadcaster. He was intercepted and pursued by Royalist horse under Lord George Goring, the Lieutenant-General of Horse to Sir William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, over the moors of Whinmoor and Bramham.
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