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Gibbet Hill, a short walk away on top of the Devil's Punch Bowl, is where murderers and robbers were hung in chains to warn others.
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The downland to the south rises steeply out of the river valley providing scenic views, including Watership Down ( made famous by the novel of the same name ), Beacon Hill and Combe Gibbet.
Notable hills include: Carrigbyrne Hill, Camross ( or Camaross ) Hill ( 181 m ), Carrigmaistia ( 167 m ), Bree Hill ( 179 m ), Gibbet Hill, Vinegar Hill, Slievecoiltia and Forth Mountain ( 237 m ), and Tara Hill.
Above the London to Portsmouth road lies Gibbet Hill.
This was 18 years before the murder of the unknown sailor on Gibbet Hill so this event was clearly not the origin of the name.
Haslemere is surrounded by hills, with Blackdown at to the south and Gibbet Hill at to the north.
On 11 April 1661, diarist Samuel Pepys mentions passing under " the man that hangs upon Shooters Hill " ( probably a highwayman hanged and left to rot as a warning to other criminals-at ' Gibbet Field ', now part of the local golf-course ).
There are many places named Gibbet Hill in England.
* Gibbet Hill, Hindhead, Surrey ()
The place where this occurred was just to the right ( when travelling towards Launceston ) of the Midlands Highway on the northern side of Perth, and is marked by a sign which reads " Gibbet Hill ".
* Map showing Perth's location and that of Gibbet Hill ( maps. google. com. au )
Gibbet Hill, in the north-west of the area, is named after the gibbet from which Edward Allport was hanged for the murder of London silk dyer John Johnson in the area on 28 March 1729.
Although this site is no longer referred to as Gibbet Hill, and was undeveloped until ( at least ) 1906, the toponomy has survived in the name of Gibbet Hill Wood ; an area which Birmingham City Council have identified as " an area of potential archaeological importance " due to " surviving archaeological remains ".
on the top of the downs near Walbury Hill and Combe Gibbet, overlooking the village of Inkpen and the valley of the River Kennet.
His family home was Woodside, Gibbet Hill, on the fringe of the city.
To deter highwaymen from attacking travellers along the road between Tavistock and Okehampton, captured highwaymen were hanged from a gibbet on what is now known as ' Gibbet Hill '.
The " Combe Gibbet " Race takes in the highest hill in the South East of England ; Walbury Hill, the highest in Hampshire ; Pilot Hill as well as Ladle Hill and the edge of Watership Down before entering Overton the source of the River Test.
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The Scottish Maiden ( supposedly based on the Halifax Gibbet ) was introduced to Edinburgh by James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton in the 16th century and remained in use until 1708.
Breads was imprisoned in the Ypres Tower and then hanged, after which his body was left to rot for more than 20 years in an iron cage on Gibbet Marsh.
It was on the marshes at Gibbet ’ s Field near Mickle Trafford that James Brown and Thomas Price were hanged in January 1795 for the abduction and robbery of a mail boy.
Caxton Gibbet is a small knoll on Ermine Street ( now the A1198 ) in England, running between London and Huntingdon, near its crossing with the road ( now the A428 ) between Oxford and Cambridge.
Combe Gibbet stands on the adjoining Gallows Down.
File: Walbury Hill-geograph. org. uk-1895. jpg | View to the west with Combe Gibbet centre top on the skyline
The north-west end is at the car park on top of Walbury Hill, near to the landmark Combe Gibbet, and the south-east end is Emsworth town square.
Several of these remain on the hilltop to the west of the Gibbet.
The Gibbet Rath massacre was the massacre of some 300 – 500 rebels by British forces which took place during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 on the Curragh of Kildare on 29 May 1798.
By the time of Duff's arrival at Gibbet Rath on the morning of 29 May, an army of between 1, 000 – 2, 000 rebels were waiting to surrender in return for the promised amnesty.
* Caxton Gibbet: A two-lane £ 55 million dual carriageway section opened on 24 May 2007 after widening works started by the Highways Agency in August 2005, linking this point to a grade-separated junction at Hardwick ( about further east ).
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Combe Gibbet is a gibbet at the top of Gallows Down, near the village and just within the civil parish of Combe in Berkshire ( formerly Hampshire ).
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Caxton is most famous for the Caxton Gibbet.
The roundabout at the junction of the A428 and A1198 is also known as Caxton Gibbet.
Cambridgeshire County Record Office, which is part of Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies, says that the following entry in the manuscripts of William Cole, a Cambridgeshire antiquarian ( 1714-1782 ) has been taken to refer to the Caxton Gibbet although there is no more specific mention of the actual location in the text.
It is said that Morton borrowed the design from the Halifax Gibbet and carried a model of it from Halifax to Edinburgh.
The Combe Gibbet is also the start of a scenic 16 mile off-road race to Overton organised by the Overton Harriers and Athletic Club.
Davies is said to have been hung at the adjacent hill now called Gibbet Lane.
Overton Harriers host two races ; the Overton 5 a road race which takes in two laps of the village, and the Combe Gibbet race which is a 16 mile point to point race from Walbury Hill to Overton.
A junction of the A371 just south of the village is known as Jack White's Gibbet as it was the site of the hanging of White for the murder of Robert Sutton in 1730.
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In the 1760s, after some pirates were hanged from one of the island's scrubby trees, it became known as Gibbet Island.
The British were responsible for particularly gruesome massacres at Gibbet Rath, New Ross and Enniscorthy, burning rebels alive in the latter two.
Later, in the Bronze Age, communal long barrows were used, like the one under Combe Gibbet.
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The group was influenced by the Italian Mannaia ( or Mannaja ), the Scottish Maiden and the Halifax Gibbet, which was fitted with an axe head weighing 7 pounds 12 ounces ( 3. 5 kg ).
The Halifax Gibbet was a monolithic wooden structure consisting of two wooden uprights, capped by a horizontal beam, of a total height of 15 feet.
The Halifax Gibbet was certainly substantial, but no date of first use has been made certain as of yet.
The first recorded execution in Halifax dates from 1280, but that execution may have been by sword, axe, or by use of the Gibbet.
* Nearby places of interest include Bucklebury Farm Park, Combe Gibbet, Highclere Castle, the Sandham Memorial Chapel, The Nature Discovery Centre, the Watermill Theatre and Watership Down.
" Fly by the Gibbet " may also have been used as a sailing expression to refer to hoisting the gibbet sail.
During the 1798 Rebellion there was a massacre in the Curragh at Gibbet Rath.
Bronze Age people used communal ' long barrows ' to bury their dead and one still exists directly beneath the Gibbet at Combe.
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