During the English siege of Berwick in 1333, the Scottish relief army attempted to reach the town. A Scottish mounted force was sent ahead to try to create a diversion but was intercepted and defeated by English cavalry in the Berwick area. This preliminary defeat, sometimes associated with the Tweed crossings before Halidon Hill, prevented Scotland from relieving Berwick without a full pitched battle, making the confrontation at Halidon Hill effectively inevitable.
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.
Research a location near East Lothian