The Battle of Hastings didn’t actually take place in Hastings, but a few miles north — and you can still visit the site of perhaps the most consequential battle ever to take place on English soil.
On the morning of October 14, 1066, 7,000 Saxons faced a roughly equal number of Norman invaders on a ridge in East Sussex. Although the Normans had the advantage of horses, the Saxons, under King Harold Godwinson, had chosen the better ground, at the top of the…
