The 20th-century historian, D. P. Kirby, wrote that the battle left Penda as "without question the most powerful Mercian ruler so far to have emerged in the midlands."
Outro historiador do século XX, D. P. Kirby, escribiu que a batalla deixou a Penda como "sen dúbida o máis poderoso gobernante merciano emerxido até entón nas terras medias".