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Towton / ˈ t aʊ t ən / is a small village and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England. It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. [ 3 ]
Location within North Yorkshire. Area: ... Tadcaster and Towton. [2] From 1974 to 2023 it was in the Selby district. Features ...
Two roads ran through the area: the Old London Road, which connected Towton to the English capital, and a direct road between Saxton and Towton. The steeply banked Cock Beck flowed in an S-shaped course around the plateau from the north to west. The plateau was bisected by the Towton Dale, which ran from the west and extended into the North ...
Cock Beck is a stream in the outlying areas of eastern Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which runs from its source due to a runoff north-west of Whinmoor, skirting east of Swarcliffe and Manston (where a public house has been named 'The Cock Beck'), past Pendas Fields, Scholes, Barwick-in-Elmet, Aberford, Towton, Stutton, and Tadcaster, where it flows into the River Wharfe.
The legislation to protect historic battlefields is relatively recent, and arose following several key incidents involving important sites e.g. the discovery in 1997 of an unprotected mass grave of soldiers who fought at the 1461 Battle of Towton [1] and a large metal detector rally held on the battlefield of Marston Moor in 2003.
Some bodies of those who were killed in the Battle of Towton were buried in the churchyard. [6] The men who gave their lives in the First World War are remembered on the War Memorial outside the church and a plaque inside the church. The Battle of Towton was fought just north of the village. [6]
Battlefield archaeology was first used as part of a single study, in England, on the site of the Battle of Towton (AD1461). Begun in late 1996/early 1997 by battlefield archaeologist Tim Sutherland, as a part of his Ph.D research, the site of the battle has been studied extensively using geophysical surveys, metal detector surveys, aerial photographic analysis as well as multiple ...
Towton Hall, Towton Towton Hall, Towton . Towton Hall is a mansion, a home, near the village of Towton in North Yorkshire, England.The building, known to been built as a residence in the seventeenth century and renovated and expanded since, is also believed to include the remnants of Richard III’s commemorative chantry chapel, [1] which was built after the Battle of Towton.