Culloden Battlefield

Local nameCulloden Battlefield
LocationEdinburgh, UK

The Battle of Culloden was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force under Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, on Drummossie Moor near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. It was the last pitched battle fought on British soil.

Charles was the eldest son of James Stuart, the exiled Stuart claimant to the British throne. Believing there was support for a Stuart restoration in both Scotland and England, he landed in Scotland in July 1745: raising an army of Scots Jacobite supporters, he took Edinburgh by September, and defeated a British government force at Prestonpans. The government recalled 12,000 troops from the Continent to deal with the rising: a Jacobite invasion of England reached as far as Derby before turning back, having attracted relatively few English recruits.

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Opening hours

Battlefield open daily, all year.

Visitor Centre (daily):
Feb - Mar, Nov - Dec 23: 10 am - 4 pm
Apr - May, Sep - Oct: 9 am - 5:30 pm
Jun - Aug: 9 am - 7 pm

Closed Dec 24 - Feb 1.

Admission

Adults: £11
Concessions: £8.50
Family: £26
Members of NTS: free

More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culloden

Official website http://www.nts.org.uk/Culloden/PPF/VisitorCentre/

Email culloden@nts.org.uk

Phone +44 844 493 2159

Address Culloden Moor, Inverness, Culloden IV2 5EU, United Kingdom

Coordinates 57°28'36.75" N -4°5'58.134" E

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