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Mortimers Cross, vil., Aymestrey par., Herefordshire, on river Lugg, 5½ miles NW. of Leominster; here, on the 2d of February 1460, the Yorkists under Edward Mortimer, Earl of March (afterwards Edward IV.), defeated the Lancastrians under the Earl of Pembroke; the event is commemorated by a pillar erected in 1799.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Aymestrey Parish Herefordshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Mortimers Cross |
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