Site where Bonnie Prince Charlie led the Jacobite uprising of 1746 under threat from property development
It was the last pitched battle fought on British soil, and its outcome determined the future of the newly formed United Kingdom and its fledgling empire. However, the land around the Culloden battlefield near Inverness is now under threat – from spreading housing estates and other developments.
As a result, historians and archaeologists have launched a campaign aimed at boosting protection for the site where Britain’s last civil war came to an end on 16 April 1746, when the Jacobite troops of Bonnie Prince Charlie were decisively defeated by an army of government soldiers.
