The Caxton Gibbet stands on a small knoll a mile and a half from the village of Caxton near a crossroads. Here criminals were gibbeted - imprisoned in an iron cage hanging from a gibbet until they died.
In the 18th century the landlord of the inn (now the Yim Houde Chinese restaurant) decided to rob three travellers. After the men had gone to bed, he went into the room and started going through their belongings. On man woke up and the landlord killed him. he then killed the other two and through the bodies down the well. He was caught and hung from the Gibbet.
Footstep have been heard walking from the room to the site of the old well.
Saturday, 15 August 2009
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