Aftermath[edit]

The reputation of Prince Rupert, and his Royalist cavalry, was enhanced by the battle.

The Parliamentarian cavalry rode in alarm all the way back to Pershore, 15 mi (24 km)
away, where they met Essex's Lifeguard.[c] Their account of the battle and belief that
Rupert's cavalry was still chasing them broke the Lifeguard, which was then carried
away in the flight.[33] According to Fiennes, both sides lost around 30 men
dead.[31] Other reports place the Parliamentarian losses higher; Brooks estimates that
desertions, drownings, and prisoners might have increased the total to 100–150.[16] The
Royalists claimed to have lost no one of note, though many of their officers,
including Prince Maurice and Henry Wilmot, were injured.[16][34]

The battle established Rupert's reputation as an effective cavalry commander; soldiers

from both sides told stories of the battle, according to the Royalist
commentator Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon the victory "rendered the name of
Prince Rupert very terrible".[35] The historian Austin Woolrych describes Powick Bridge
as having "significance ... disproportionate to its scale": it proved that the Royalists had
forces capable of standing up to and beating those of Parliament, and affected the
morale of both armies leading up to the Battle of Edgehill a month later.[36]

No longer threatened by the Parliamentarians, the convoy was able to continue on