Marston Moor

American  

noun

1. a former moor in NE England, west of York: Cromwell's victory over the Royalists 1644.

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Marston Moor British  

noun

1. a flat low-lying area in NE England, west of York: scene of a battle (1644) in which the Parliamentarians defeated the Royalists

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Marston Moor

Tate Rokeby is set in Yorkshire during the English civil war, in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Marston Moor.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2013

Eyre, according to Thompson, was born in Blakewell in 1604, died 40 years later as a result of wounds suffered at the battle of Marston Moor.

From Time Magazine Archive

With Oliver Cromwell as his second in command, Edward Montagu, second Earl of Manchester, won the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644.

From Time Magazine Archive

The popular Fairfax overcame the princely Rupert; while the great Commoner—Cromwell—overthrew Royalty itself.  p. 201Chivalry had to surrender its crest at Newbury, Marston Moor, and Naseby, to popular bravery and religious zeal. 

From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evans, Evan

He grumbled at the sagacity of the Roundhead troopers, who had lain a night at Pattenhall before Marston Moor, and swept it as bare as a board.

From A Little Wizard by Weyman, Stanley J.