Towton, North Yorkshire

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Towton is a village in North Yorkshire

Parish/Community: Towton
District/Borough: Selby
County: North Yorkshire
Region: Yorkshire and The Humber

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 53°50'59"N 1°15'44"W
Eastings/Northings: 448620, 439533
OS Grid: SE486395
Mapcode Local: GBR MRMX.HP
Mapcode Global: WHDBG.LH1J

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Towton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Towton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Towton, township, Saxton par., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 2½ miles S. of Tadcaster, 885 ac., pop. 93; Towton Hall is the property of the Hawkes; the battle of Towton, between the Lancastrians and the Yorkists, was fought March 1461.

Towton in the Domesday Book

A village in Barkston hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

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