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    New round in the Hastings battle: English Heritage investigating claims 1066 clash actually took place two miles away from East Sussex site

    It is one of the most famous battles in English history and marks the last time the country was conquered by a foreign army.

    But now the Government’s advisers on England’s heritage are to investigate new evidence that might prove the true location of the Battle of Hastings is two miles from where historians have long accepted it took place.

    English Heritage’s battlefield committee is to look at two competing cases which challenge the long-held belief that the bloody encounter took place on land commemorated by the foundation of Battle Abbey, near Hastings in East Sussex.

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