Bosworth Field Visitor Centre

Up north for the weekend and since, sadly, I had no time to go to Grey Friars, I thought I might travel back via Bosworth. I was amused to see the following sentence on their web page about the visitor centre shop:

"The extensive book range includes works on the Plantagenet and Tudor period and fiction books by Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir."

Mind you, they also, cite the chucking of the bones into the Soar as fact, so the slight against Alison Weir is probably just a happy accident...

Would like to add my thanks to those Annette has already received - marvellous and scholarly work from everyone.

Jonathan

I visited Bosworth Battlefield Centre in July and found that though Richard had sadly lost the battle on the field, he had won the battle of the gift shop - much more Ricardian themed souvenirs than those with Tudor associations.  I wrote about it for our branch website:  http://www.richardiii-nsw.org.au/?p=7742

Dorothea




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Up north for the weekend and since, sadly, I had no time to go to Grey Friars, I thought I might travel back via Bosworth. I was amused to see the following sentence on their web page about the visitor centre shop:

"The extensive book range includes works on the Plantagenet and Tudor period and fiction books by Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir."

Mind you, they also, cite the chucking of the bones into the Soar as fact, so the slight against Alison Weir is probably just a happy accident...

Would like to add my thanks to those Annette has already received - marvellous and scholarly work from everyone.

Jonathan

Thank you for the link, Dorothea - lovely article.

So the battlefield trail does incorporate the confirmed site, albeit from a distance? I've not been there for probably 20 years, though visited the Sutton Cheney church much more recently. Lived in Leicestershire for my first 20 years - the second 20 have been in Kent (or South East London, given how much the city sprawls).

Anyone visiting Bosworth should check out Ashby Castle. It's in ruins following the Civil War siege, but the Hastings Tower (almost but not quite completed by 1483) offers fantastic views for miles around. The Hastings Chapel in St Helen's Church is also rather lovely.

Jonathan