It was even claimed that a Radnorshire judge had been the first to make the comparison. However Presteigne’s Gallows Lane has long been named as a reminder to all of those who were condemned to death in Presteigne, particularly in the 18th century. Presteigne was the capital town of Radnorshire for centuries before the first recorded execution in 1739. In September the Radnorshire Court of Great Sessions condemned two men to be hanged for the murder of William Price in Gladestry on April 23. Gallows Lane earned its reputation in the years which followed. In 1743 Thomas Williams was hanged for stealing sheep and a year later Isaac Thomas faced the same fate for passing a forged coin.
EVEN today the steep climb from Manafon to Llanfair Caereinion is known as the Gibbet. The gibbet had been an oak tree and is thought to have been first used in August 1735. There are two varying stories of its origins. The first is that a family of innkeepers in nearby Manafon had taken to killing and robbing their guests and buried them in nearby woods. The family is only recorded as the Lloyd’s and among their victims had been a Scottish pedlar. The family was said to have hanged in chains on a hill near their former residence at a place called the Coed.
Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald from 1976-1977, 1979-1983 and 1985
Faversham Times and Mercury and North-East Kent Journal from 1860-1861, 1863, 1865-1871, 1873-1887, 1889-1895, 1897-1905 and 1920
Middlesex Chronicle from 1986-1988
Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times from 1880-1881, 1883-1884 and 1889
Bridgend Chronicle, Cowbridge, Llantrisant, and Maesteg Advertiser from 1893
Liverpool Weekly Courier from 1880, 1898, 1900-1901 and 1903
Kenilworth Advertiser from 1880
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette from 1880
Blackpool Gazette & Herald from 1880
Birkenhead News from 1880
Northern Weekly Gazette from 1880
Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette from 1880
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PLANNING applications for a cafe and holiday accommodation at one of Presteigne’s most recognisable buildings have been withdrawn. To make alterations to The Judge’s Lodging Museum, full and listed building planning applications were submitted to Powys County Council in September, 2020. The Judge’s Lodging Trust who run the museum said that income from the proposals could help secure the long-term future of the Grade II-listed neo-classical building on Broad Street, which shows how judges, their staff and prisoners would have lived in the 19th Century. But documents lodged as part of the application show that there were concerns that the proposals would change the building’s aesthetic too much, and warned that the plans lacked detail.
PLANNING applications for a cafe and holiday accommodation at one of Presteigne’s most recognisable buildings have been withdrawn. To make alterations to The Judge’s Lodging Museum, full and listed building planning applications were submitted to Powys County Council in September, 2020. The Judge’s Lodging Trust who run the museum said that income from the proposals could help secure the long-term future of the Grade II-listed neo-classical building on Broad Street, which shows how judges, their staff and prisoners would have lived in the 19th Century. But documents lodged as part of the application show that there were concerns that the proposals would change the building’s aesthetic too much, and warned that the plans lacked detail.