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2:00 PM - The Bloodiest Battle on English Soil?
The Bloodiest Battle on English Soil?
30 Nov
30/11/2025    
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Pontefract Castle Vistor Centre
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On a wintry Palm Sunday in 1461, two great armies faced each other across Towton Vale with the future of the English throne at stake. [...]
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