What the records say
- When
- 1 Jun 1985
- Kind
- Riot
- Coordinates
- 51.19° N, 1.67° W
- Description
- confrontation between police and New Age travellers in England in 1985
- Injured
- 24
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of the Beanfield, Britain's largest mass arrest and the effective end of Stonehenge Free Festivals”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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