Battlefields

51 places across Britain and Ireland

• BannockburnNear Stirling · Robert the Bruce's great victory over Edward II.
• Battlefield, ShrewsburyBattlefield, Shropshire · Hotspur fell, and a young prince took an arrow in the face and survived.
• Bosworth FieldNear Market Bosworth, Leicestershire · Where Richard III, the last king to die in battle, lost his crown.
• CilmeriCilmeri, Powys · Where Llywelyn the Last, the final native Prince of Wales, was killed.
• EdgehillNear Kineton, Warwickshire · The first battle of the Civil War, which was said to be fought again in the sky.
• EveshamEvesham, Worcestershire · Simon de Montfort, father of parliament, cut down in a thunderstorm.
• FloddenBranxton, Northumberland · The last British king to die in battle fell here, with the flower of Scotland.
• KilliecrankiePass of Killiecrankie, Perthshire · A Highland charge, and the Soldier's Leap across a raging river.
• MaldonNear Maldon, Essex · A heroic Saxon last stand against the Vikings, remembered in a famous poem.
• Marston MoorNear Long Marston, North Yorkshire · The biggest battle of the Civil War, and the phantom soldiers seen on the road.
• Mons GraupiusBennachie, Aberdeenshire · Rome's great victory in Scotland, at a site nobody has found.
• Mortimer's CrossNear Leominster, Herefordshire · Three suns appeared in the sky before the battle.
• NasebyNaseby, Northamptonshire · The battle that decided the Civil War.
• PrestonpansEast Lothian · Bonnie Prince Charlie's stunning dawn victory.
• Roundway DownNear Devizes, Wiltshire · Royalist cavalry drove Parliament's horsemen over a cliff, into the 'Bloody Ditch'.
• SedgemoorWestonzoyland, Somerset · The last pitched battle on English soil, and the Bloody Assizes that followed.
• Stamford BridgeEast Riding of Yorkshire · King Harold's great victory, just nineteen days before Hastings.
• Tewkesbury and the Bloody MeadowTewkesbury, Gloucestershire · A decisive Yorkist victory, and a meadow named for the slaughter.
• The Battle of AughrimAughrim, County Galway · The bloodiest battle in Irish history.
• The Battle of BarnetHadley Green, Barnet, London · A battle in thick fog, where the Kingmaker met his end.
• The Battle of BenburbBenburb, County Tyrone · The greatest Irish victory of the Confederate Wars.
• The Battle of Bryn GlasPilleth, Powys · Glyndŵr's army crushed the English and captured their commander.
• The Battle of ClontarfClontarf, Dublin · Brian Boru defeated the Vikings, but was killed in his tent.
• The Battle of Crug MawrNear Cardigan, Ceredigion · A Welsh victory where the fleeing Normans broke a bridge.
• The Battle of EthandunEdington, Wiltshire · Where King Alfred saved England from the Vikings.
• The Battle of FulfordFulford, York · The first of the three great battles of 1066.
• The Battle of HarlawNear Inverurie, Aberdeenshire · 'Red Harlaw', a savage clash between Highland and Lowland Scotland.
• The Battle of KinsaleKinsale, County Cork · The battle that ended the old Gaelic order in Ireland.
• The Battle of LangportLangport, Somerset · Cromwell's cavalry crossed a narrow ford and broke the king's army in the west.
• The Battle of LansdownLansdown Hill, near Bath · Cornish pikemen stormed a hill, and their hero fell at the top.
• The Battle of LargsLargs, Ayrshire · The battle that ended Viking rule in the Scottish islands.
• The Battle of LewesLewes, East Sussex · Simon de Montfort captured the king himself.
• The Battle of MontgomeryMontgomery, Powys · The largest Civil War battle in Wales before St Fagans.
• The Battle of Mynydd HyddgenPumlumon, Ceredigion · Owain Glyndŵr's first great victory, high in the Welsh mountains.
• The Battle of NechtansmereDunnichen, Angus · The battle that stopped Northumbria conquering the Picts.
• The Battle of OtterburnOtterburn, Northumberland · A battle by moonlight, won by a dead man.
• The Battle of SheriffmuirNear Dunblane, Perthshire · The battle where both sides ran away.
• The Battle of St FagansSt Fagans, Cardiff · Often called the biggest battle ever fought in Wales.
• The Battle of Stirling BridgeStirling · William Wallace and Andrew Moray's great victory.
• The Battle of the BoyneNear Drogheda, County Meath · Two kings, one river, and a battle still remembered every July.
• The Battle of the Yellow FordNear Armagh · The worst defeat ever suffered by an English army in Ireland.
• The Battle of WakefieldSandal Castle, Wakefield, West Yorkshire · The Duke of York charged out of his castle, and lost his head.
• The Battle of WorcesterWorcester · The last battle of the Civil Wars, and a king who hid in an oak tree.
• The First Battle of St AlbansSt Albans, Hertfordshire · The street battle that began the Wars of the Roses.
• The Last Invasion of BritainCarregwastad Point, near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire · French soldiers landed in Wales, and were rounded up by a woman with a pitchfork.
• The Massacre of GlencoeGlencoe, Highlands · Guests who turned on their hosts in the night.
• The Siege of DerryDerry/Londonderry · 105 days behind the walls, with the people eating rats.
• The Siege of DroghedaDrogheda, County Louth · Cromwell's storming of the town, still remembered with horror.
• The Treaty StoneLimerick · The stone on which a broken treaty was said to be signed.
• TowtonNear Tadcaster, North Yorkshire · The bloodiest battle ever fought on British soil, in a snowstorm.
• Vinegar HillEnniscorthy, County Wexford · The rebels' last stand in the 1798 Rising.