Monument to Murder, Curdridge, Hampshire

Photograph taken 10 October 1999 © Ms Rae Comben LRPS. Source Historic England Archive ref: 146173

This monument was placed here in 1800. It's inscription reads 'This stone is erected to Perpetuate a Most Cruel Murder Committed on the Body of Thomas Webb a Poor Inhabitant of Swanmore on the 11 February 1800 by John Diggins a Private Soldier in the Talbot Fencibles whose remains are Gibbeted on the Adjoining Common'.

Location

Hampshire Curdridge

Period

Georgian (1714 - 1836)

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The village stocks with four ankle holes for the punishment of petty crime and misdemeanor in the village. Although probably used from the Anglo-Saxon period, a statute of 1351 made it law for every township to provide and maintain a set of stocks.

Monument to Murder, Curdridge, Hampshire

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