Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DANES-MOOR, or Dunsmoor

DANES-MOOR, or Dunsmoor, a place on the mutual border of Northampton and Oxford; 5¼ miles NE by N of Banbury. The Yorkists sustained a defeat here in 1469; and Charles I. encamped here before the battle of Edgehill.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a place"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Northamptonshire AncC       Oxfordshire AncC
Place names: DANES MOOR     |     DANES MOOR OR DUNSMOOR     |     DUNSMOOR
Place: Danes Moor

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