Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GLADESMORE-HEATH, or Bentley-Heath

GLADESMORE-HEATH, or Bentley-Heath, a place on the N border of Middlesex; 2 miles NNE of Barnet. Here was fought the battle of Barnet in 1471, in which Edward IV. defeated the Earl of Warwick; and here stands an obelisk commemorative of that event.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a place"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Middlesex AncC
Place names: BENTLEY HEATH     |     GLADESMORE HEATH     |     GLADESMORE HEATH OR BENTLEY HEATH
Place: Bentley Heath

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