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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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FLODDEN, a famous battlefield in Kirk-Newton parish, Northumberland; on the river Till, 3 miles EST of Cornhill. It was the scene of the defeat of the Scottish army, under James IV., by the Earl of Surrey. Flodden Hill, on which the Scottish army was posted, is an out-skirt of the Cheviots, sloping to the Till; the plain of Milfield, across which the English army advanced to the attack, extends down the Till toward the Tweed; and the actual battle-field lies around the junction of the hill and the plain, -is now intersected by the road from Coldstream to Newcastle, -and has an unhewn pillar, called the King's Stone, marking the spot where James IV. fell. This place has been characterized as.
Flodden's fatal field,
Where shivered was fair Scotland's spear,
And broken was her shield.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a famous battlefield" (ADL Feature Type: "historical sites") |
| Administrative units: | Northumberland AncC |
| Place: | Flodden |
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