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The Hangman ’ s Stone is a boundary stone lying about a mile south of the village at.

It gets its name from a local tale which tells of a sheep rustler who was carrying a stolen sheep over his shoulder with a rope held around his neck.

Feeling tired the thief sat on a stone beside the road and fell asleep.

The sheep, in struggling to get free, hanged the man by the rope that had remained around his neck.

The stone has given its name to the road which passes it, Hangman ’ s Stone Lane, which leads to the village of Boxford.