North Yorkshire walking trail unveiled 700 years on from the Battle of Boroughbridge

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North Yorkshire walking trail unveiled 700 years on from the Battle of Boroughbridge
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Lancaster was taken to his home at Pontefract Castle where he was sentenced to death after a show trial, and beheaded on March 22

The 3 Swords Historical Group will put on an ‘Arming the Knight’ demonstration at Hall Square inat 10am before a parade to St James Square, where one of the new information boards is due to be unveiled by the Mayor of Boroughbridge, Sean Hynes, at 11am.

Louise Whittaker, from Harrogate, a member of the Battlefields Trust, is to carry out a short tour of the trail and introduce a new leafleted guide of the walk, which will be available at the Boroughbridge tourist information facility.Louise says: “The main problem was thatruled through a series of royal favourites. He gave these men an awful amount of power and influence, probably excluding many of the existing nobility, and they saw themselves as the king’s natural counsellors.

At that point the king’s opposition lied low or went abroad, says Louise, but the after-effects of Boroughbridge continued. That was until in 1327, when his wife, Isabella of France, returned from her native shores with Roger Mortimer.

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