TURNING POINTS · 1066
Battle Abbey, Battle, England
The armies fought on 14 October 1066. Battle Abbey was built to commemorate the victory. The target marks the abbey and battlefield site, not a precise combat position.
The story, as a puzzle
One battle. A different England.
On 14 October 1066, a Norman duke defeated the last Anglo-Saxon king. The winner built an abbey on the battlefield, and the town that grew around it took its name from the fight. Pin it.
Where it is
Think you'd have found it on the map?
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