In September 1644 the Parliamentarians (Roundheads) fortified the village and garrisoned the place with sufficient troops to withstand a large attack and it remained in their hands until the end of the war.
The two sides skirmished all the afternoon but then Parliamentary reinforcements from Cholmondeley arrived to assist Gerard and they drove the Royalists back, following them to Boughton and into Gorse Stacks on the outskirts of Chester, where they killed some of them.
[5] On Sunday 18 August 1644, Colonel Marrow marched from Chester with a detachment of foot (infantry) and horse (cavalry) towards Northwich, and on the way they took cattle without paying for them.
After the skirmish it seems that the Royalist detachment made for Tarvin, because two days later (Tuesday 20 August) a party of Parliamentarians from Nantwich with the assistance of Sir William Brereton's horse and reinforcements from Halton Castle attacked the Royalists quartered at Tarvin and, for the fifteen prisoners they lost two days earlier, took between 200 and 300 horses, capturing 45 prisoners and killing 15, all for the loss of only one man.
[3][6] On Friday 30 August 1644,[3] all the Parliamentary garrison of Nantwich, except Major Croxton's and the town's trained bands, marched to Middlewich where they encamped for the night.
The next day they proceeded to Northwich and Great Budworth, and then to Tarvin, which they fortified with strong earthworks and garrisoned, declaring it to be a market town.
[3] Within a few hours the artillery pieces had done their work making a breach four men wide in the city wall to the left of the Newgate.