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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 ]
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.
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.
Humphrey Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre of Gilsland (c. 1424 – 30 May 1485), was an English soldier, Cumberland landowner and peer.. He remained loyal to the House of Lancaster when Henry VI was deposed by Edward IV and fought on the Lancastrian side at the Battle of Towton of 1461, after which he was attainted.
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.
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 ...
At the Battle of Towton (29 March 1461) Trollope shared the command of the Lancastrian vanguard with Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, against the Yorkist army of Edward IV. [1] Considered the "opposite number" of his contemporary William Neville, 1st Earl of Kent , Trollope's death in the battle was "a damaging blow" for the future of ...
Hawke was created Baron Hawke "of Towton" (in which Yorkshire parish was situated his residence of Scarthingwell Hall, inherited by his wife [44]) on 20 May 1776. [45] Towards the end of his life he had his country house built in Sunbury-on-Thames [46] and lived alternately there and at a rented home in North Stoneham, Hampshire. [47]