| < | List of Names as written on the Plan |
Various modes of Spelling the same Names |
Authority for those modes of Spelling |
Situation | Descriptive Remarks, or other General Observations which may be considered of Interest |
> |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter’s Gibbet | Winter’s Gibbet | Mr Thompson | 64 chains South East | This name is applicable to a | ||
| Winter’s Gibbet | Mr Charlton | of Pearson’s House | wooden erection in the form of | |||
| Winter’s Gibbet | Mr Elliott | a pole about 20 feet in height & | ||||
| 6 inches square with an arm fixed | ||||||
| at the top. From this arm hangs the representation of William Winters head | ||||||
| carved in wood. William Winter was hanged at the west gate Newcastle | ||||||
| in 1792 and his body hung in chains on a Gibbet at Sting Cross in sight | ||||||
| of an old Peel wherein he committed a most barbarous murder on a woman | ||||||
| named Margaret Crozier. The Gibbet on which Winters body hung is now | ||||||
| decay |
||||||
| which marks the exact place. This object is sometimes called Winters Stub or Stob | ||||||
| which means a post &c but the name by which it is best known is adopted | ||||||
| J. Doherty Lance Corporal Royal Engineers | ||||||
Abbreviations are underlined like this RE and the expansion may be seen by hovering the cursor over the abbreviation.
| An entry outlined like this has a note which may be seen by hovering the cursor over it. |
Transcribed by JTP
Return to Elsdon 364 index
