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10 stops · about 0.3 km on foot · London, United Kingdom

Dark history around Tyburn, London (part 2)

Follow the stops in order. Each is a documented story set at or near this spot.

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  1. Start · Tyburn, London · 1661

    The Lord Protector Executed After Death

    Two years after he died in his bed, the king's son had his corpse dug up, hanged, and beheaded.

  2. same spot · Tyburn, London · 1499

    The Pretender Who Confessed on a Platform

    A man who claimed to be a lost prince was forced to publicly unravel his own legend before the gallows.

  3. 123 m on · Tyburn, London · 1540

    Betrayed by a Farmer's Grudge

    The man who helped condemn Anne Boleyn was destroyed years later by a tenant's accusation and a single well-placed word.

  4. same spot · Tyburn, London · 1535

    The Cheerful Walk to Tyburn

    Watching from his cell, Thomas More saw five men dragged to Tyburn cheerful as bridegrooms, knowing he would follow.

  5. same spot · Marble Arch, London · 1700

    The Killing Ground Beside Marble Arch

    For nearly 600 years a triangular wooden gallows on a London traffic island hanged tens of thousands, and almost nobody notices the plaque today.

  6. same spot · London · 1726

    The Last Woman Burned Alive In England

    Her murder became the stuff of ballads and nightmares — and her execution went so wrong it stands as a black mark on English justice.

  7. same spot · Tyburn, London · 1594

    The Queen's Physician on the Gallows

    The only royal doctor ever executed in English history, his trial may have helped inspire Shakespeare's Shylock.

  8. same spot · Tyburn, London · 1777

    The Macaroni Parson Hanged at Tyburn

    In June 1777 Dr William Dodd, the fashionable preacher, was hanged for forging a bond. 23,000 people signed for his pardon and Samuel Johnson wrote for him in secret. Friends tried to revive him.

  9. same spot · Tyburn, London · 1654

    Saint John Southworth, the Martyr You Can Still Stand Beside

    A Lancashire priest tended plague victims in Westminster, was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn in 1654, lost for over a century in a French grave, and now lies in Westminster Cathedral.

  10. 56 m on · Tyburn, London · 1760

    The Earl Who Was Hanged in His Wedding Suit

    Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, shot his steward and went to Tyburn in silver-embroidered white. Legend says they gave him a silken rope. The new drop was not ready.

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