Margaret's cession of Berwick to Scotland in 1461 was a desperate diplomatic gamble. Scotland occupied the town for the next twenty years until Edward IV recovered it in 1482. It was a significant strategic loss for England during a period when Northumberland was the cockpit of the Wars of the Roses
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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