Description:

This memorial stands on the very spot where he died (don't ask me how 'they' know!) in 1307.  It is on the English side of the Solway Firth, the large body of water that since 1092 has marked the border with south-west Scotland.  Edward was on campaign at the time, with an enormous army and raring to ford the water, invade Scotland and settle things once and for all with his one-time vassal and now his nemesis, Robert the Bruce.  Aging and ill, the king allegedly had dysentery and expired in the arms of his servants, aged just 68.  A memorial was first erected in 1685 , though the current one dates from 1803, and it’s placed exactly where his tent was supposed (?) to have been.

Legend has it that Edward I left word that his body or his bones – should be carried into Scotland until the battle had been won and Robert the Bruce finally dead.

That didn't happen. His son Edward II took the army and the bones back south.

In Burgh by Sands there’s a statue of Edward I on the village green to mark the 700^th anniversary of the king’s death.