Detail View: SHIMMER: 1066 Battle of Hastings and Battle Abbey
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Title:
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1066 Battle of Hastings and Battle Abbey
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Image Date:
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2011
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Period:
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21st century
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Location:
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Battle, East Sussex
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Country:
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ENGLAND, UK
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Display Creator:
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not known
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Terms:
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Dark tourism ; Tourist attractions
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Image ID:
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11-2181
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Description:
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Notice board inside the site (maintained by English Heritage). It shows various facilities built for tourists including a car-park, visitor centre, museums, the remaining abbey buildings and walks around the site of the battle. These walks are supported by an audio tour activated at specified viewpoints supported by story boards at those points. The tourist attraction here is marketed as '1066 Battle of Hastings and Battle Abbey'. Unlike the battlefield site at Naseby, see < http://shimmer.shu.ac.uk/luna/servlet/s/i4x5pm >, which is now farmland, the Battlefield at Hastings is open to visitors. There are no traces of the actual battle visible, though the landscape remains largely unaltered apart from the Abbey buildings at the top of hill where the English positions were. The high altar of the Abbey is supposed to have been sited on the spot where King Harold was killed.
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Rights:
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© Sheffield Hallam University
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Permissions:
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For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >."
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Related Information:
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1066 Battle of Hastings. For more information see also English Heritage website at < http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/1066-battle-of-hastings-abbey-and-battlefield/ > .
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Photographed by:
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Dave Ball
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Creator:
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not known
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Creator Role:
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Designer.
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Subject Heading:
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Signs and signboards -- England
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Subject Heading:
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Tourism -- England (East Sussex)
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Subject Heading:
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Hastings, Battle of, England, 1066
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Subject Heading:
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Trails -- England
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Subject Heading:
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Battlefields
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Subject Heading:
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Heritage tourism -- England (East Sussex)
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