Is there a memorial to the 1715 battle in Preston, either a plaque or a monument?
There is no monument to the Jacobite battle in November 1715 but it started on 9 November on London Road, on the hillside leading to the bridge that now spans the Ribble. Then the fighting moved into the streets of Avenham and around the Parish church. About 4000 Scots took part in the battle but about 2500 fled the town and escaped when Government forces set fire to the houses in which they were holed up. On the morning of 14 November, the rest accepted unconditional surrender and were lined up in the Market Square and for many years there was a stone there to commemorate the event. Then they were marched to a piece of common land called Fulwood Moor then outside the town, that is now Moor Park, and kept under guard in tents or in the freezing open air. Fulwood Moor was a closed area for many years after 1715 and the military used it for exercises. The real monument to the 1715 in Preston is Fulwood Barracks. It was built over the next few years to maintain a Hanoverian presence in th
