Tyburn Tree VR Ghost Gallows 15th Century Londons Mass Execution Site

Edgware Road, Tyburnia, London W1H 7EL

Tyburn hanging tree was replaced by wooden gallows during it's 650 years of operation nobody knows what happened to the original 12th century tree that was replaced. The point of public exeuctions were to deter crime and the spectacle with tourism would cause people wanting to see the condemed actually spike the crime by the sheer numbers of people who would attend statistically there would be all manners of crime taking place within the panic and chaos of an unorganized unruly mob of bloodlusting crowds of tourists

About 1100 men and almost 100 women were hanged at Tyburn in the eighteenth century.

Oliver Cromwells body was dug up and hanged at Tyburn, a type of posthumous revenge by King Charles supporters

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From the local 23 bus that passes by from the closeby center of London at Buckingham Palace could take upwards 20 minutes, during the horse and carriage days the voyage could take up to 4hrs depending on how big the mob was and that depended on who was to be executed which was normally a well written person in the newspaper that month or year as news travelled slow in the 16th century

Five children under fourteen were executed before 1800

In 1571, the Tyburn Tree was erected near junction of Edgware Road, Bayswater Road and Oxford Street, 200m west of Marble Arch.

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Tyburn became associated with the place of criminal execution after most were moved here from Smithfield in the 1400s. Prisoners were taken in public procession from Newgate Prison in the City, via St Giles in the Fields and Oxford Street (then known as Tyburn Road). From the late 18th century, when public executions were no longer carried out at Tyburn, they occurred at Newgate Prison itself and at Horsemonger Lane Gaol in Southwark.

Of the 1,232 people hanged at Tyburn between 1703 and 1792, only 92 were women

Multiple criminals could be hanged at once, and so the gallows were used for mass executions

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The first recorded execution took place at a site next to the stream in 1196. William Fitz Osbert, populist leader who played a major role in an 1196 popular revolt in London, was cornered in the church of St Mary-le-Bow. He was dragged naked behind a horse to Tyburn, where he was hanged.

Mondays a crowd of around 10,000 people attended the executions at Tyburn

The first victim of the "Tyburn Tree" was John Story, a Roman Catholic who was convicted and tried for treason.

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In 1537, Henry VIII used Tyburn to execute the ringleaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace, including Sir Nicholas Tempest, one of the northern leaders of the Pilgrimage and the King's own Bowbearer of the Forest of Bowland.

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Jack Ketch The Tyburn Executioner of 1663

Ketch, holding a rope and an axe, replies, “Here’s your cure sir.”

Jack Ketch, otherwise known as John Ketch or Richard Jaquet, began his twenty-three year career as London’s leading executioner in 1663. He was not the only executioner dispatching the condemned at Tyburn, but he was the most infamous, earning a reputation for brutality remarkable even for a man in his profession. After his death in 1686, his name became slang for any executioner, the devil, and even death itself.

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