Battle of Barnet Battlefield

The Battle of Barnet was fought on Sunday 14 April 1471, Easter Day, near Barnet, then a small Hertfordshire town, between Edward IV's Yorkists and the Lancastrians under Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, who was killed. The two armies clashed at dawn in thick fog; the Earl of Oxford's Lancastrians, returning to the field, were shot at in error by Lord Montagu's centre, and cries of treason spread through the Lancastrian line. Edward's victory, with Tewkesbury that May, secured the throne and was followed by fourteen years of Yorkist rule. The registered boundary crosses the borough edge and part of the ground lies outside Greater London; archaeological survey since 2015 has argued that the fighting took place further west than the area registered as NHLE 1000001, so the ground described here is the registered one. High Barnet Underground Station is 1,167 m from Monken Hadley and Hadley Wood Rail Station, in the London Borough of Enfield, 1,430 m.