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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
MORTIMERS-CROSS, a township in Aymestrey parish, Hereford; on the river Lugg, 5½ miles NW of Leominster. Pop., 40. A severe battle, decisive in favour of the Yorkists, was fought here in Feb. 1460, between the Yorkists under Edward Mortimer, Earl of March, afterwards Edward IV., and the Lancastrians under the Earl of Pembroke; and is commemorated by a pillar erected in 1799.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Aymestrey AP/CP Herefordshire AncC |
| Place: | Mortimers Cross |
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