On our cycle route to school we pass Tyburn: one of the things about living in York is that history is never far away. The photo is of Tyburn where a board informs you:
"TYBURN
York Gallows stood on this site commonly called Tyburn after those in London.
The Gallows were said to have been built in 1379 to replace an existing gibbet standing on the Knavesmire.A number of Roman Catholic priests were executed here in the 16th and 17th centuries and the highwayman Richard Palmer [no known relation] aka Dick Turpin was hanged in 1739. The public executions attracted large crowds. The last hanging took place in 1801 and the gallows were dismantled in 1812. Executions moved to a new site at York Castle and continued to attract large crowds until the last public hanging in 1868.
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