Battle of Boldon Hill

Battle of Boldon Hill
	Part of the First English Civil War
Date	24 March 1644
Location	The Boldons, South Tyneside
Result	Indecisive
Belligerents
England	Scotland
Commanders and leaders
Marquess of Newcastle	Earl of Leven

54.946°N 1.430°W / 54.946; -1.430

Boldon Hill

Newcastle

Sunderland

Durham

Tyne and Wear and Boldon Hill

The Battle of Boldon Hill was a day-long engagement that took place in modern-day Tyne and Wear between English Royalists and an army made up of Scottish Covenanters in alliance with Parliamentarians from nearby Sunderland on 24 March 1644 during the First English Civil War.

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