Battle of Marston Moor - Aftermath

Aftermath

With the departure of Newcastle and Rupert, the Royalists effectively abandoned the north, except for isolated garrisons. The allied army soon dispersed. Leven took his troops north to besiege Newcastle upon Tyne and Carlisle, while Manchester's army returned to Lincolnshire and eventually moved into the south of England to take part in the Second Battle of Newbury.

Over the next few months the Scots and Parliamentarians slowly eliminated the remaining Royalist garrisons throughout northern England. The remnants of Byron's troops were driven from Lancashire in August, and were involved in another Royalist disaster at the Relief of Montgomery Castle in Wales in September. The Royalist cavalry from the Northern counties, the "Northern Horse", continued to fight for King Charles under Sir Marmaduke Langdale. They relieved a Royalist garrison at Pontefract Castle in south Yorkshire in February 1645, but their undisciplined and licentious conduct turned many former sympathisers away from the Royalist cause. After being involved in the defeats of King Charles at the battles of Naseby and Rowton Heath, they made a final attempt to reach Scotland and were routed at Sherburn-in-Elmet in October 1645.