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Fulford Public Inquiry

29 August 2006

The Battlefields Trust will be giving evidence to the Public Inquiry on Germany Beck on 19th July, where it is proposed that several hundred houses will be built, to be served by an access road which cuts across the probable site of the battle of Fulford (1066.) This is arguably the least changed battlefield of the those from 1066 (Stamford Bridge and Hastings being the other two) and therefore, should in the view of the Battlefields Trust be preserved for further investigation once methodologies for battlefield archaeology have developed, and for better on-site interpretation which would provide a more fitting memorial to those who fought than the bricks and tarmac of a housing estate.