Stop plans to build a High Speed Test Track on Bosworth Battlefield. #Bosworth #Tudors

Stop plans to build a High Speed Test Track on Bosworth Battlefield

I don’t usually post blogs about current affairs, but today I am making the exception. In recent months two of our most sacred battle sites are under threat from development. The first being Culloden Battlefield. You can read about the proposed development here. It has now come to my attention that there has been an application to build a driverless car track on part of the battlefield of Bosworth.

Now many people say that there is not one part of the British Isles that has not seen a battle and that we cannot be sentimental about the past. But in the case of both Culloden and Bosworth, I think we should be.

In the Battle of Culloden (16th April 1746) between 1500 to 2,000 Jacobites died. Culloden is their memorial. The Battle of Bosworth (22nd August 1485) was the climax to the War of the Roses. King Richard III was the last English monarch to die in battle. And while he cried:

"Traitor. Traitor. Traitor."

Henry VII took the throne from him, and so started the reign of the Tudors. 

I have been to Bosworth many times and to think that we could lose this heritage for our future generations is utterly heartbreaking. Richard III’s body was found under a car park, are we to allow the same sad fate to happen to the place where he and countless others died? I cannot understand why commerce should be allowed to destroy our heritage. Please, if you have a few minutes, support Diane Penn and sign this petition and save this monument for those who come after us. If a car park, where Richards III’s body was found, can be given scheduled monument status then surely the place where he died should also be protected. 

The Members of Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council’s planning committee have been advised to grant permission for the venture which they will discuss tomorrow — Tuesday 28^th August. It is not too late. We can stop this.

Sign the petition:

Here

Thank you.