Senlac

[ sen-lak ]

noun

1. a hill in SE England: believed by some historians to have been the site of the Battle of Hastings, 1066.

Senlac

/ ˈsɛnlæk /

noun

1. a hill in Sussex: site of the Battle of Hastings in 1066

Example Sentences

But the abbey was built here to commemorate the battle so everyone thought this must be Senlac Ridge.

From The Guardian

With admirable energy, however, Harold marched his weary army southward to Senlac, a hill near the town of Hastings, and there took up his position to await an attack by the duke's army.

From Project Gutenberg

William never could have intended to retain the whole of the vast territories which the victory of Senlac had given him in his own possession.

From Project Gutenberg

Odo was a principal figure, with Geoffrey, Bishop of Coutance, at Senlac, when the Norman Duke conquered Harold’s crown; and he was held in well-deserved reprobation for the sanguinary revenge that he exacted for the slaying of Walcher, Bishop of Durham, and his following of a hundred French and Flemish men-at-arms, at Gateshead, on the 14th of May, 1080.

From Project Gutenberg

It is astonishing to reflect that a spirit so unconventional, so free from dogmatic prejudice, so rational in spite of his pessimism and deeply religious notwithstanding his attacks on revealed religion, should have ended his life in a Syrian country-town some years before the battle of Senlac.

From Project Gutenberg