Bloreheath Battlefield

Heritage Site in Staffordshire Newcastle-under-Lyme

England

Bloreheath Battlefield

Market Drayton - Salopian Star This C17th building houses the Salopian Star pub. It has an unusual projecting first-storey room above the steps leading to the front door.
The photo was taken from a few yards into Cross Street (not Ross Street as you might think from the image!).
It is EH Grade II listed <span class="nowrap"><a title="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1177012?section=official-list-entry" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1177012?section=official-list-entry">Link</a><img style="margin-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="https://s1.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/></span> — Market Drayton - Salopian Star Credit: Rob Farrow

Bloreheath Battlefield is a historically significant site located in Staffordshire, England. It is widely recognized as one of the most notable battlefields from the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars fought in England during the 15th century.

On September 23, 1459, the Battle of Bloreheath took place at this site between the Yorkists, led by Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury, and the Lancastrians, commanded by James Touchet, Lord Audley. The battle marked an early conflict in the Wars of the Roses, and it ultimately resulted in a Yorkist victory.

The battlefield itself is an open grassy area, covering approximately 20 acres. It retains much of its original topography, allowing visitors to gain a sense of the terrain as it would have been during the battle. There is a small monument on the site, erected in the 19th century, which commemorates the battle and provides some historical context.

Bloreheath Battlefield is of great historical importance, as it was a key engagement in the Wars of the Roses and played a significant role in shaping the future of England. It is visited by history enthusiasts, researchers, and those interested in the medieval period. The site offers a unique opportunity to explore and understand the events that unfolded during this turbulent period in English history.

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Bloreheath Battlefield Images

Images are sourced within 2km of 52.9141/-2.4621 or Grid Reference SJ7135. Thanks to Geograph Open Source API. All images are credited.

Market Drayton - Salopian Star

This C17th building houses the Salopian Star pub. It has an unusual projecting first-storey room above the steps leading to the front door. The photo was taken from a few yards into Cross Street (not Ross Street as you might think from the image!). It is EH Grade II listed Link

Rob Farrow

Newcastle Road Bridge and Pillbox

On the Shropshire Union Canal.

Andrew Abbott

Talbot Wharf

On the Shropshire Union Canal

Andrew Abbott

Market Drayton wharf

On the Shropshire Union Canal.

Andrew Abbott

Betton Road Bridge

Grade II listed. Listing number 1056088. Canal bridge. Circa 1830. Thomas Telford and Alexander Easton, engineers. Dressed red sandstone with tooled dressings. Elliptical skew arch with voussoirs and raised keystones. Humped-back shape with string course and parapet with square end piers and rounded coping. Slightly battered and curved abutments. Cast-iron corner posts on towpath side with grooves caused by rope haulage. Oval cast-iron number plate to south.

Andrew Abbott

Former stable block

Grade II listed. Listing number 1307599. Stable block. Circa 1770. Red brick with hipped plain tile roof. U-plan, at right angles to road. 2 storeys. Dentil brick eaves cornice. Central square wooden cupola with keyed round arches and ogee lead dome with globe finial and weathervane. 2:4:2 bays. Central break has wide open triangular-pedimented gable with circular wooden clock in tympanum. Wooden cross windows with gauged-brick heads (blocked to first floor). 2 central bays with blocked first- floor lunettes above ground-floor round-arched doorways, that to left blocked and that to right with pair of boarded doors. Boarded door in second bay from left with 2-part rectangular overlight. Pair of flanking wings at right-angles, that to left of one storey with brick ridge stack and altered openings and that to right of 2 storeys with various boarded doors and lozenge-shaped honeycomb vents in gable end. Rear: 8 bays. Segmental-headed pair of boarded doors just off-centre to left. End walls of main block of 2 bays.

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The Grove, Market Drayton

Grade II listed. Listing number 1056093. House, used as schoolbuilding. Circa 1770, for Colonel Thomas D'Avenant. Red brick with gauged orange brick dressings, rendered plinth and some painted stone details. Hipped plain tile roof. Double-pile plan with semi-circular bow to south-east, flanking canted bays to sides and service wing to north-east. Two storeys and attic.

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69 Stafford Street, Market Drayton

An attractive cottage.

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35 Stafford Street, Market Drayton

Grade II listed. Listing number 1056090. House, now offices. Early C19, incorporating C17 core. Red brick with some painted stone dressings

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St Mary's Church, Market Drayton

Grade II* listed. Listing number 1366835. Parish church. C14 tower with C12 doorway and remains of C14 work in nave and chancel. Restored and largely rebuilt in 1881-89, by Carpenter & Ingelow at a cost of £7747. 10s. 10d. Red sandstone ashlar (with some grey sandstone in tower) with C20 tile patching.

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St Mary's Hall and the Old Grammar School

Grade II listed. Listing number 1366464. Grammar school and schoolmaster's house, now 2 houses. Mid-18th century, possibly incorporating some mid-16th century fabric.

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Tudor House, Market Drayton

Grade II* listed. Listing number 1307835. Pair of houses, latterly bank, now restaurant and shop. Mid-C17, restored in 1962. Timber-framed with plastered infill; ground floor rebuilt in C20 with yellow/grey sandstone/reconstituted stone. Rendered gable end to south- west.

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The Salopian Star

Grade II listed. Listing number 1177012. House, now inn. Dated 1669. Late C19 or early C20 alterations. Timber framed with plastered and painted brick infill, pebbledashed to right-hand return front. Painted dressed sandstone and later brick plinth. C19 planted timbers to front and underbuilt in painted brick to right.

Andrew Abbott

Canalside houses

In Market Drayton.

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Former Stoke to Market Drayton Line

The location at which the bridge from the former Stoke to Market Drayton Line crossed the Shropshire Union Canal

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Herd of dairy cows, near Home Farm

On the east bank of the Shropshire Union canal, south of Market Drayton.

Christine Johnstone

Moored boats, south of bridge 62

On the Shropshire Union canal, on the southern edge of Market Drayton.

Christine Johnstone

Boaters' combined sanitary station

On the Shropshire Union canal at Market Drayton. This combined sanitary station includes a water point, sewage disposal and rubbish disposal for the use of boaters.

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Bloreheath Battlefield is located at Grid Ref: SJ7135 (Lat: 52.9141, Lng: -2.4621)

Administrative County: Staffordshire

District: Newcastle-under-Lyme

Police Authority: Staffordshire