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BRANXTON, or BRANKSTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 432 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRANXTON, or BRANKSTON , a See also:village of See also:Northumberland, See also:England, loz m. E. by N. of See also:Kelso, and 2 M. E.S.E. of See also:Coldstream, and to m. N.W. of Wooler. It was on Branxton See also:Hill, immediately See also:south of the village, that the See also:battle of See also:Flodden (q.v.) was fought between the See also:English and the Scots on the 9th of See also:September 1513. During the fight the Scots centre pushed as far as Branxton See also:church, but " the See also:King's See also:Stone," which lies N.W. of the church and is popularly supposed to See also:mark the spot where See also:James IV. See also:fell, is some three-quarters of a mile from the sceneof the battle; it is believed in reality to mark the See also:sepulchre of a chieftain, whose name had already perished in the 16th See also:century. Branxton church, dedicated to St See also:Paul, was rebuilt in 1849 in See also:Norman See also:style. Of the older See also:building nothing remains See also:save the See also:chancel See also:arch.

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