Hidden Britain AtlasOpen the map
All places › Gibbets & executions
Execution site

Claude Duval

Hounslow Heath, London

The French highwayman who danced with his victims.

Claude Duval was a dashing French highwayman who robbed coaches on the roads west of London. The story goes that he once stopped a coach on Hounslow Heath and offered to take only part of the money if the lady inside would dance with him by the roadside.

Read the full story, see it on the map, get directions and find what else is nearby in the free Hidden Britain Atlas map.

Open Claude Duval on the mapReport a sighting here
When
Hanged 1670
Where
51.4600, -0.3900
Group
Gibbets & executions

Visiting

Hounslow Heath is now a nature reserve. Duval is said to be buried at St Paul's, Covent Garden.

Nearby mysteries