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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Mortimers Cross like this:
MORTIMERS-CROSS, a township in Aymestrey parish, Hereford; on the river Lugg, 5½ miles NW of Leominster. Pop., 40. A severe battle, decisive in favour of the Yorkists, was fought here in Feb. 1460, between the Yorkists under Edward Mortimer, Earl of March, afterwards Edward IV., and the Lancastrians under the Earl of Pembroke; and is commemorated by a pillar erected in 1799.
Mortimers Cross is now part of HEREFORDSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how HEREFORDSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Mortimers Cross itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Mortimers Cross in Herefordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25783
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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