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The 'Towton torcs' were acquired by the Yorkshire Museum in 2013. [4] The village is best known for the Battle of Towton, fought on Palm Sunday, 29 March 1461, during the Wars of the Roses. It was at this battle that Sir David Ap Mathew saved the life of Edward IV. Once King, Edward granted Sir David Ap Mathew permission to use 'Towton' on the ...
The plateau was bisected by the Towton Dale, which ran from the west and extended into the North Acres in the east. Woodlands were scattered along the beck; Renshaw Woods lined the river on the north-western side of the plateau, and south of Towton Dale, Castle Hill Wood grew on the west side of the plateau at a bend in the beck.
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]
Lord Clifford, fighting for the Lancastrian side, was killed at Dintingdale. The Battles of Ferrybridge, Dintingdale and Towton, were all held on the same day, but because of the casualties at Towton, it eclipses the other two. [13] [14] Historically, Towton was within the parish boundaries, and Saxton and Scarthingwell were a township in the ...
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.
Location within North Yorkshire. Area: 3.42 km 2 (1.32 sq mi) Population: 59 (2001 census) ... Tadcaster and Towton. [2] From 1974 to 2023 it was in the Selby district.
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.
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.