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Battle of Bosworth Field

Battle of Bosworth Field was a battle fought on 22 August 1485 at Ambion Hill, in what is now United Kingdom. It was part of the Wars of the Roses, which ran from 1455 to 1487.

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Battle of Bosworth Field
Battle of Bosworth Field. Philip James de Loutherbourg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Fought22 August 1485
WhereAmbion Hill, United Kingdom52.591N, 1.410W
OutcomeVictory for the House of Tudor and their allies; Final overthrow of House of York; Last Plantagenet monarch, Richard III, killed in action; Ascension of Tudor dynasty
BelligerentsHouse of YorkagainstHouse of Tudor (Lancastrian); Supported by: Kingdom of France; Kingdom of Scotland; Stanley family
Battlefield todayBattle of Bosworth (Field) battlefieldHistoric England entry 1000004, 1,073 ha
Part ofWars of the Roses1455 to 1487

Where it sits in the Wars of the Roses

First Battle of St Albans, 1455Battle of Blore Heath, 1459Battle of Ludford Bridge, 1459Battle of Sandwich (1460), 1459Battle of Northampton, 1460Battle of Worksop, 1460Battle of Wakefield, 1460Battle of Mortimer's Cross, 1461Second Battle of St Albans, 1461Battle of Ferrybridge, 1461Battle of Towton, 1461Battle of Tuthill, 1461Battle of Piltown, 1462Battle of Hedgeley Moor, 1464Battle of Hexham, 1464Battle of Edgcote, 1469Battle of Losecoat Field, 1470Battle of Barnet, 1471Battle of Tewkesbury, 1471Siege of London (1471), 1471Battle of Bosworth Field, 1485Battle of Stoke Field, 148714551487Battle of Bosworth Field, 1485
22 placed engagements of the Wars of the Roses in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date22 August 1485
PlaceAmbion Hill, United Kingdom
52.591N, 1.410W
KindBattle, medieval
Commanders
  • Richard III of England
  • John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk
  • Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland
  • Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
  • John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln
  • Viscount Lovell
Battle of Bosworth FieldBattle of Bosworth Field5 km52.591N, 1.410W
The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. The dashed outline is the registered battlefield area (Historic England). Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

The ground today

Relief of the ground around the site of Battle of Bosworth Field
Relief within about 10.0 km of the site, contours every 10 m. Copernicus DEM GLO-30, ESA.
Satellite view of the site of Battle of Bosworth Field today
The same ground from Sentinel-2 on 2025-07-12. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025.

The recorded site stands at about 90 m; within 10.0 km the ground runs from 73 to 153 m, 79 m of relief, gently rolling country and today it is 48% cropland, 37% grassland, 13% tree cover.

cropland: 48%grassland: 37%tree cover: 13%built-up: 2%cropland 48%grassland 37%tree cover 13%built-up 2%
west to east, 10.0 km80 to 117 mnorth to south, 10.0 km84 to 137 m
Elevation from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, Airbus); land cover from ESA WorldCover 2021 (CC BY 4.0), within about 5 km of the recorded site. Computed, not recorded.

Nearest engagements

In the same war

Elsewhere in 1485

Historic England registers this as the Battle of Bosworth (Field) battlefield (entry 1000004), 1,073 hectares, under the Open Government Licence.

Battle of Bosworth Field is one of 720 engagements of the 15th century in the atlas and one of 695 in present-day United Kingdom.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q222013, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Bosworth Field, revision 1380861767, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Battlefield boundary and area from Historic England (Open Government Licence). Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.