Skipton Castle in Craven was an important Clifford stronghold and remained in Lancastrian sympathiser hands in the months after Towton as Yorkist authority consolidated across Yorkshire. Yorkist forces made approaches to Skipton to ensure its submission and prevent it becoming a Lancastrian refuge.
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