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Battle of Hastings: Does it matter exactly where it happened?

A new book claims King Harold was defeated by William the Conqueror two miles away from the official battlefield. But does the precise location really matter?
As you wander around the fields and lanes of Crowhurst in East Sussex it's not easy to picture one of the bloodiest and most decisive clashes in British history.
The village's cow-nibbled pasture and handsome wisteria-lined cottages seem like they could not be further removed from the carnage and devastation of the Norman conquest - or, indeed, from the tourist clamour that surrounds nearby Battle Abbey, where historians have traditionally believed the English army was routed in 1066.
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