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Hoole and Newton's role in history is said to be '''"somewhat insignificant"''', Which seems to imply that nothing important ever happened here. This is quite untrue. The "Battle of Rowton Heath" was fought in part on Hoole Heath and Lord Bernard Stewart died there. After his remaining cavalry were scattered at Rowton/Hoole Heath on 24 September 1645, Charles returned to Newark. On 13 October, news reached him of Montrose's defeat at Philiphaugh a month earlier, ending plans for taking the war into Scotland. The loss of Carmarthen and Chepstow in South Wales cut connections with Irish Royalists, forcing Charles back to Oxford, where he spent the winter besieged by the New Model Army. The last pitched battle of the war took place at Stow-on-the-Wold on 21 March 1846, when 3,000 Royalists were dispersed by Parliamentary forces. Before the battle near Chester Charles position was desparatedesperate, but afterwards ''en route'' to disaster.