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St Oswalds Church

Introduction

The photograph on this page of St Oswalds Church by Peter Brooks as part of the Geograph project.

The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.

There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk

St Oswalds Church

Image: © Peter Brooks Taken: 14 Aug 2005

Supposedly the site of Heavenfield, where a battle was fought in 635 between Oswald, leading a Northumbrian army, and a Welsh army under Cadwallon ap Cadfan. Oswald won, and restored Northumbria to its position of supremacy in 7th century Britain. The church was rebuilt in 1737.

Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0

Image Location

Leaflet Map data © OpenStreetMap

Latitude

55.019999

Longitude

-2.103194