Debunked legend
Richard III thrown in the Soar
The plaque was wrong.
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Bridge over the Soar
- Legend from
- Leicester tradition
- Tone
- Wry
Into the river, said the plaque.
A later story held that Richard III's body was dug up at the Dissolution and thrown into the Soar near Bow Bridge; a plaque by Benjamin Broadbent (1856) repeated it. The BBC notes John Ashdown-Hill argued the body probably remained at the Grey Friars. His remains were in fact found at Grey Friars in 2012.