3. Newgate Prison. In use for more than 700 years – from 1188 to 1902 – and the site of London's gallows after Tyburn was retired from duty in 1783. The executions took place in public – with the gallows set up on Newgate Street – until 1868.
Where is the Tyburn Tree Plaque?
The junction of Tyburn Road (now Oxford Street) and Tyburn Lane (now Park Lane) provides its precise location. Today a stone plaque on a traffic island near Marble Arch marks the place where the gallows once stood. After 1571 a triangular-shaped gallows was erected which reached approximately six metres.
When was the last public hanging in the UK?
26 May 1868: Fenian Michael Barrett was executed at Newgate Prison for mass murder. He had participated in the Clerkenwell explosion, which had killed 12 people. His execution was the last public hanging in the UK.
What does Tyburn mean?
Tyburn – meaning 'place of the elms' – was a village close to the current location of Marble Arch and so-called for its position adjacent to the Tyburn Brook, a tributary of the lost Westbourne River. Tyburn's 'tree' was in fact a wooden gallows where criminals were hanged to death.
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