Winter's Gibbet

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Winter's Gibbet and Steng Cross


Elsdon Civil Parish

  • Description

    "On 29th August 1791, William Winter murdered Margaret Crozier at Raw, about three miles north of Elsdon. Winter, and two accomplices, were caught, tried and hanged at the Westgate, Newcastle. Winter's body was afterwards hung in chains at the Steng Cross, an ancient boundary stone a couple of miles south-east of Elsdon, within sight of his victims home." Photo by Phil Thirkell, 2007.

  • Owner

    Phil Thirkell

  • Source

    Geograph (Geograph)

  • License

    What does this mean? Creative Commons License

  • Further information

    Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/374285
    Resource type: Image
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 3 years, 5 months ago
    Viewed: 343 times
    Picture Taken: 2007-03-20

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