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Gibbet Tree, Hawkshead
Gibbet Tree
locality:-   Hawkshead
civil parish:-   Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   tree
locality type:-   gallows (site) 
coordinates:-   SD35549807
1Km square:-   SD3598
10Km square:-   SD39


photograph
BSJ95.jpg (taken 30.3.2010)  

story:-  
Thomas Lancaster of High Wray Farm was found guilty at Lancaster Assizes of poisoning his whole family with arsenic, 1672. He was hung and his body exposed here in chains
"untill such tymes as hee rotted everye bone from other"
for the death of seven souls, and the illness of several others.

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