Caxton Gibbet

Several local writers say that it was no longer there by the early decades of the nineteenth century, but in January 1822, William Cobbett recorded seeing the gibbet in his "Huntingdon Journal" (published in his Political Register, vol.

[citation needed] It is reputed to be a gruesome example of the cage variation of the gibbet, into which live victims were allegedly placed until they died from starvation, dehydration or exposure.

I saw him hanging in a scarlet coat after he had hung 2 or 4 months; it is supposed that the screw was filed which supported him and that he fell in the first high wind after.The erection of the modern replica may have been connected with the nearby public house The Gibbet Inn.

[3] The location gave its name to an RAF Relief Landing Ground, operated between summer 1940 and 9 July 1945, in the field to the east of Ermine Street.

[4] It was used by Tiger Moths of the 22 Elementary Flight Training School (Cambridge) and huts there were used to house personnel from 105 Squadron at RAF Bourn.