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Stevenston, Middleton

Scotland
Era
Unknown Era
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
Scotland
Status
Unregistered
The Battle

History & Significance

Stevenston, Middleton was a pitched battle between opposing field armies, fought in Scotland. 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 Stevenston, Middleton lies on Clackmannan Group, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is sedimentary rock cycles, clackmannan group type.

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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.
Stat Accounts
The parish Statistical Accounts of the 1790s and 1830s, describing life, work and population here.
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.
Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Stevenston, Middleton

Knock Jargon,cairn & fort
Knock Jargon,cairn & fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.8 mi

Knock Jargon is a Iron Age cairn and fort located in Ayrshire, Scotland, and protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. The site occupies bedrock composed of Dinantian extrusive rocks—mafic lava and tuff formed during the Mississippian period—which provided a naturally de…

Blackshaw Quarry,cup & ring marked rock 320m S of
Blackshaw Quarry,cup & ring marked rock 320m S of
Scheduled monument · ~3.5 mi

Blackshaw Quarry cup and ring marked rock is a prehistoric carved stone located in Ayrshire, Scotland, situated some 320 metres south of Blackshaw Quarry. The rock bears cup and ring markings, a form of rock art created by Bronze Age communities across Britain and Ireland. These designs, comprisi…

Kilwinning,waggonway & bridge,SE of Saugh Trees
Kilwinning,waggonway & bridge,SE of Saugh Trees
Scheduled monument · ~4.3 mi

Kilwinning Waggonway and Bridge is a industrial transport structure located south-east of Saugh Trees in Ayrshire, Scotland. The monument comprises a waggonway—a horse-drawn railway—and associated bridge, dating from the period of coal industry expansion in lowland Scotland. Such waggonways forme…

Seagate Castle
Seagate Castle
Scheduled monument · ~4.6 mi
Clonbeith Castle
Clonbeith Castle
Scheduled monument · ~5.2 mi

Clonbeith Castle is a scheduled monument located in Ayrshire, Scotland, protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM314. The castle stands on bedrock of the Clackmannan Group, sedimentary rocks formed during the Westphalian period, which dominate the geology of this region. This…

Auld Hill,fort,Portencross
Auld Hill,fort,Portencross
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~6.1 mi

Auld Hill is a fort located on the Ayrshire coast near Portencross in south-western Scotland. The site is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. The fort is constructed upon bedrock belonging to the Arbuthnott-Garvock Group, a geological formation of Pragian age compr…

Kerelaw Castle
Scheduled monument · ~0.8 miles
Ardeer Recreation Club,subterranean passage & cave
Scheduled monument · ~1.2 miles
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