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"BATTLEFIELD, a parish in the Albrighton division of the county of Salop, 3 miles to the N. of Shrewsbury. The Shrewsbury and Chester and Crewe and Shrewsbury railways pass near it. Here was fought, on the 21st of July, 1403, the battle usually called the Battle of Shrewsbury, in which the insurgent forces under Percy, Earl of Northumberland, were defeated by Henry IV., and in which Hotspur, with a large number of nobles, was slain. A college was founded here by the king in commemoration of the victory, the revenue of which at the Dissolution was about £55."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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