Detail View: SHIMMER: 1066 Battle of Hastings and Battle Abbey

Title: 
1066 Battle of Hastings and Battle Abbey
Image Date: 
2011
Period: 
21st century
Location: 
Battle, East Sussex
Country: 
ENGLAND, UK
Display Creator: 
not known
Terms: 
Dark tourism ; Tourist attractions
Image ID: 
11-2179b
Description: 
Battlefield Walk. Story board near the start of the signposted walk around the site of the Battle with a limited views of the site. Regular viewpoints along the signposted visitor walk of the battlefield are supported by story boards. The walk is also supported by an audio tour, using headphones available for hire at the site entrance, which are activated at each story board. Views of the hill and battlefield improve as you progress around the walk. 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.
Rights: 
© Sheffield Hallam University
Permissions: 
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 >."
Related Information: 
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/ > .
Photographed by: 
Dave Ball
Creator: 
not known
Creator Role: 
Designer.
Subject Heading: 
Signs and signboards -- England
Subject Heading: 
Tourism -- England (East Sussex)
Subject Heading: 
Hastings, Battle of, England, 1066
Subject Heading: 
Trails -- England
Subject Heading: 
Battlefields
Subject Heading: 
Heritage tourism -- England (East Sussex)