BRANXTON or BRANKSTON, a village of Northumber land, England, 2m. S.E. of Coldstream and Iom. N.W. of Wooler. It was on Branxton Hill, immediately south of the village, that the battle of Flodden (q.v.) was fought between the English and the Scots on Sept. 9 1513. During the fight the Scots' centre pushed as far as Branxton church, but "the king's stone," which lies N.W. of the church and is popularly supposed to mark the spot where James IV. fell, is some three-quarters of a mile from the scene of the battle; it is probably an earlier monument. Pop. of parish (1921) 184.