Given a few hundred years, every battlefield ends up simply a field, but the site of the Battle of Bosworth – where Richard III met his maker in 1485 – is enlivened by an entertaining heritage center full of skeletons and musket balls; guided walks around the site last 90 minutes. Enthusiasts in period costume re-enact the battle each August.
The battlefield is 16 miles southwest of Leicester at Sutton Cheney, off the A447; there's no public transport.
Although it lasted just a few hours, the Battle of Bosworth marked the end of the Plantagenet dynasty and the start of the Tudor era. This was where the mortally wounded Richard III famously proclaimed: "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse." (Actually, he didn't: the quote was invented by that great Tudor propagandist William Shakespeare.)
