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William the Conqueror's famous battle took place a bit north of Hastings, and it wasn't too long after 1066 that an abbey was founded next to the battlefield, complete with supporting village.
Just short of a millennium later--910 years, to be exact--I came ashore at the White Cliffs of Dover, and before too long, was taken, as all visitors to Sussex must be taken, to visit the town of Battle, Battle Abbey, and, incidentally, the Battle Auction House, where things that were older than the country I came from were on offer to actual non-museum people.
( I bought something. )
Just short of a millennium later--910 years, to be exact--I came ashore at the White Cliffs of Dover, and before too long, was taken, as all visitors to Sussex must be taken, to visit the town of Battle, Battle Abbey, and, incidentally, the Battle Auction House, where things that were older than the country I came from were on offer to actual non-museum people.
( I bought something. )