Battle Abbey Guidebook

This guidebook includes a full tour and history of the famous battlefield and the imposing buildings of Battle Abbey, and is illustrated with full-colour maps, reconstruction drawings and historical images. The Battle of Hastings, on 14th October 1066, is the most famous battle to have been fought on English soil. William the Conqueror built Battle Abbey on the spot where King Harold died, and it thrived as a Benedictine abbey for over 400 years.