The Leicestershire country park and heritage centre marking the 1485 battle where Richard III was killed and the Tudors took the throne
On 22 August 1485 the armies of Richard III and Henry Tudor met on the fields near here, and by the end of the day Richard was dead, the Wars of the Roses all but over, and the Tudor line begun under Henry VII. Richard was the last English king to die in battle. The heritage centre sits on Ambion Hill, long taken to be the spot, though archaeologists have since placed the actual fighting a couple of miles to the south-west, where they turned up cannon shot and a small silver boar badge, Richard’s own emblem. Around it is a country park of grassland and hedgerow with waymarked trails, and you can walk out to the marked Battle of Bosworth (Field) itself. The Ashby Canal runs along the western edge, and Market Bosworth, with its restored steam line the Battlefield Line Railway, is a few miles north.
