When did Battle of Yarmouth take place?

Battle of Yarmouth took place in an uncertain year, England.

Who won Battle of Yarmouth?

The victor at Battle of Yarmouth is disputed or unrecorded in the surviving sources.

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Battle of Yarmouth

England

Era

Unknown Era

Battle Type

Pitched Battle

Location

England

Status

Unregistered

The Battle

History & Significance

Battle of Yarmouth was a pitched battle between opposing field armies, fought in England. Which side prevailed is not recorded in the surviving sources, and its outcome is not conclusively established in the historical record.

The ground

The ground they fought on

The site of Battle of Yarmouth lies on Neogene To Quaternary Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Quaternary. The rock here is gravel, sand, silt and clay.

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Monuments

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Battlefields

The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.

Roman Britain

The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.

Domesday

The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.

Civil War

The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.

Geology

The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.

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Local Names

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Historical Maps

Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.

Literature

The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.

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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Battle of Yarmouth

Merchant's House, Row 117, South Quay

Scheduled monument · ~1.2 mi

Merchant's House, Row 117, South Quay is a Grade II listed building located in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. The structure dates from the late medieval or early modern period and reflects the commercial and residential character of Great Yarmouth's historic quayside development. The building exemplifi…

Nos 6, 7 and 8, Row 111, South Quay

Scheduled monument · ~1.2 mi

I do not have access to specific documented information about Nos 6, 7 and 8, Row 111, South Quay in the heritage records available to me, despite the NHLE reference provided. To provide accurate scholarly description of this particular Norfolk monument, I would require confirmed archaeological o…

Town walls

Scheduled monument · ~1.3 mi

Town walls in Norfolk is a defensive structure dating to the medieval period. The walls represent an important phase of urban fortification in medieval England, constructed to protect the settlement and control access to the town. Built from flint and stone, the surviving sections demonstrate the…

Evelyn Simak / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons

Burgh Castle Roman fort, vicus, pre-Conquest monastery and Norman motte and bailey castle

Scheduled monument · ~2.4 mi

Burgh Castle is a multi-period fortified site in Suffolk, England, which represents a sequence of significant military and religious occupation spanning the Roman period through the medieval era. The site originated as a Roman fort, likely constructed in the third century AD as part of the coasta…

MDBWC / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons

Midsands Cross on Crosstead road

Scheduled monument · ~2.4 mi

I do not have reliable scholarly information about Midsands Cross on Crosstead Road that would allow me to write with the precision and factual accuracy your request requires. Rather than risk providing inaccurate details about this specific Norfolk monument, I must acknowledge this limitation. I…

T Baker / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons

Berney Arms windmill

Scheduled monument · ~2.8 mi

Berney Arms is a seven-storey cylindrical brick tower mill located in the Halvergate Marshes near Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, dating to 1865. The mill was constructed during the nineteenth-century expansion of marshland drainage and grain milling in East Anglia, and represents a significant exampl…

Ian Martin / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons

Greyfriars Franciscan friary

Scheduled monument · ~1.2 miles

Medieval vaults under 50-56 Howard Street

Scheduled monument · ~1.2 miles

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Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft

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Sources

Battle of Yarmouth · Wikidata

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