Northampton 1460

[janner]

1460, Northampton … a key battle of the Wars of the Roses. The battle took place south of the Nene in the vicinity of Delapre Abbey and within view of the Eleanor Cross.

Amidst debate about the exact location, and sporadic plans for development, sympathetic and destructive, Northampton Borough Council have put their policies out to public consultation and there is a questionnaire online to endorse a plan to protect the battlefield.

http://www.northampton.gov.uk/info/200207/building-conservation-and-trees/1952/site-of-the-battle-of-northampton-1460-conservation-management-plan(scroll down to start survey now link)

Please take the time to fill out the survey – every response stacks up to show people care about this. Hopefully you will also want to include in your comments that the site is a registered battlefield and any archaeology done should not be used as an excuse for development.

Closing date is 27th March so don't delay and you can take part even if you are not a UK-resident 

[Atheling]

Done  .

Janner is correct in that everything we can possibly do to protect out heritage should be done!

Please take some time to fill in the survey  .

Darrell.

[Ray Earle]

Done.

[Hu Rhu]

Done.

[painterman]

Janner
Many thanks for posting up the link here - and to those who have filled out the forms - as a resident local to this battlefield, its important that we do all we can to preserve it and learn more about it.

For further interest, we have just formed the Northampton Battlefields Society (covering the county, not just 1460), led by the sterling research and energetic work of Mike Ingram.

We have a Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Northampton1460/?fref=ts

and an embryonic website: http://northamptonbattlefieldssociety.wordpress.com/

thanks, Simon.