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Flodden Field, Northumberland
Flodden Field
county:-   Northumberland
locality type:-   battle site
1Km square:-   NT8937
10Km square:-   NT83
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
image G853A614, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1853 part 1 p.614  "..."
"Secondly. With regard to the white coats worn by the Kendal men at the battle of Flodden Field:-"
""The left-hand wing, with all his route,
The lusty Lord Dacre did lead;
With him the bows of Kendale stoute,
With milk-white coats and crosses red.""
hearsay:-  
 Scotland, allied with France, invaded England when Henry VIII invaded France. The Scots were defeated at the Battle of Flodden Field, 1513; James IV, King of Scots, was slain.
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