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Next spring (2025) will see the launching of another attraction set around the Battle of Bosworth and the fate of our favourite king, Richard III. It is to be called Bosworth1485.

Not only will the trail take people to the places and through the countryside of relevance, but there will be “interpretation panels” at each location on the trail, so it’s all explained in full for those who don’t know what happened that fateful day in August 1485. There’ll also be four special artworks/ statues, one of which will be situated at the Bosworth Battlefield Centre. See here for more details of the trail’s route and purpose.

As explained by Martin Peters, Chief Executive of Leicestershire Promotions: “….The story of the Battle of Bosworth is well documented and is interpreted wonderfully well at the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre and King Richard III Visitor Centre in Leicester. However, the one key part of this puzzle that is still missing is the physical experience of moving through the landscape in which it took place….”

I wish the entire enterprise every success, because the Battle of Bosworth and the tragic demise of Richard III is indeed “one of the greatest stories in British history”. Richard was certainly was one of our greatest losses. But for the cruel twist of deceitful Stanley treachery on the battlefield, we’d have had a good, just and wise king….and we’d have been spared the cruel House of Tudor!

To get the ambitious project going it is to be financed by a new crowdfunding appeal that will offer four different levels of sponsorship, commencing from £99.

I hope copious funds are forthcoming, because anything that promotes the truth about Richard III is welcome to his legions of modern supporters. For too long he’s been damned as a child-murdering monster who stole his boy nephew‘s throne. That is a vile lie that we all wish to see disproved!