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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 ...
Gravett, Christopher (2003) Towton 1461—England's Bloodiest Battle, Campaign, 120, Oxford: Osprey Publishing, pp. pp. 54–55 Retrieved on 15 November 2010. ISBN: 1-84176-513-9. "Battle of Towton" signboard at the battlefield produced by the Towton Battlefield Society 2000; Tree icon: File:Tree from above.svg; Author: Map: Jappalang; File ...
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 ]
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.
Gravett, Christopher (2003) Towton 1461—England's Bloodiest Battle, Campaign, 120, Oxford: Osprey Publishing, pp. pp. 54–55 Retrieved on 15 November 2010. ISBN: 1-84176-513-9. "Battle of Towton" signboard at the battlefield produced by the Towton Battlefield Society 2000; Tree icon: File:Tree from above.svg; Author: Map: Jappalang; File ...
The coat of arms of the Barons Hawke, as used in the family memorial of 1781. Baron Hawke, "of Towton" in the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain.It was created on 20 May 1776 for Admiral Sir Edward Hawke (of Scarthingwell Hall in the parish of Towton), responsible for a blockade of all French merchant shipping and the grounding of six French ships, and scattering of the ...
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.
Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles, KG (c. 1406 – 29 March 1461) was an English peer who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Joint Deputy of Calais.He was slain fighting on the Lancastrian side at the Battle of Towton, and was attainted on 21 December 1461.