Legend
Richard's last drink
Water before the battle.
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Stone cairn over a spring
- Legend from
- Bosworth legend
- Tone
- Melancholy
One last drink before the charge.
Tradition says Richard III drank from this spring during the Battle of Bosworth. The IWM register says Dr Samuel Parr raised a stone cairn with a Latin inscription in 1813. The Battlefields Trust says a newer Richard III Society plaque questions the drinking story. The holy wells blog adds the cairn was repaired in 1964.