The Battle of Mortimers Cross is one of the most poorly documented of all the battles of The Wars of the Roses, therefore we cannot be sure exactly where the battle took place in and around the area of Mortimer’s Cross and the village of Kingsland.

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The battlefield landscape has also, in parts at least, been transformed from that which existed in 1461. Hedged enclosures have replaced open field and meadow on the low lying land, while the route of the London to Aberystwyth road across the battlefield has been completely abandoned and replaced by 18th-century turnpike routes.

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However, in the future, a study of the historic terrain may allow the earlier pattern to be recovered and a survey for the archaeology of the battle may resolve some of the questions about the location and nature of the action. This is the mission of The Mortimers Cross Battlefield Project.