The church of St Mary Magdalene was built 1406, as a memorial to those who fell in battle. On the 21st July 1403, on a ridge to the north of the church the rebel troops of Henry Percy, Harry Hotspur formed up. To the south was the army of King Henry IV, with Prince Henry, the Prince of Wales, the battle started with an advance of the royalists troops, which was received by a storm of arrows from the rebels. Hotspur then led a charge into the King Henry's army heading directly towards the king's standard but when Hotspur was killed and Prince Henry attacked the right flank and rear of the Hotspur's army, the rebels broke and ran for their lives.
