Images of Towton

Edward IV's-Eye View of the Field Shot from approximately the vantage point of Edward IV's command post. The Lancastrian forces were arrayed along the ridge in the distance. Geoffrey Richardson comments: "The road winding on the right of the view from the Yorkist centre is the old road to Tadcaster down which some of Lancaster's forces fled, including Somerset and the other leaders who escaped to carry news of the disaster to the city of York. The trees to the extreme left of the shot are Renshaw Wood, still today much as they were in 1461. They run on both sides of the Cock Beck and were no doubt the scene of many bloody, final skirmishes as the pursuing Yorkists overtook their Lancastrian foes and took vengeance for Wakefield and Second St Albans."

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