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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 74 SW 191 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of a Gibbet, Gibbet Lane, Horsmonden |
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Summary
A gibbet was erected to hang the remains of William Fairall, a member of the Hawkhurst Gang, at one end of Gibbet Lane. The gibbet is not shown on the Ordnance Survey historic maps.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7013 4078 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ74SW |
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| Parish: | HORSMONDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- GIBBET (Post Medieval - 1750 AD? to 1800 AD?)
Full description
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A gibbet was erected to hang the remains of William Fairall, a member of the Hawkhurst Gang, at one end of Gibbet Lane. The gibbet is not shown on the 1st Ed OS map.(1)
<1> Hufton, G & Baird, E., 1983, Scarecrows Legion: Smuggling in Kent and Sussex (Monograph). SKE7997.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Hufton, G & Baird, E.. 1983. Scarecrows Legion: Smuggling in Kent and Sussex. |
