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Winter's Gibbet

Steng Cross, near Elsdon, Northumberland

A gibbet on the moor with a wooden head swinging from it.

In 1791 William Winter murdered an elderly woman, Margaret Crozier, in her home near Elsdon. He was hanged in Newcastle in 1792, and his body was brought back and hung in chains on the moor, within sight of the scene of the crime.

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When
1792
Where
55.1900, -2.0400
Group
Gibbets & executions

Visiting

Beside the minor road over the moor south of Elsdon.

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