Harrow Green is a hamlet in the civil parish of Lawshall in the Babergh district in the county of Suffolk, England.

[1] The Lawshall Murder took place on Monday 20 January 1851 and was reported in detail in both the local and national press including The Times.

[2] The Times on 24 January 1851 reported: "It is evident, from the tattered condition of her dress and the state of the ground near the pond where the body was discovered, that a fearful struggle must have ensued between the unhappy victim and her murderer.

It is conjectured that a refusal to comply with some improper overtures on his part led to a struggle, and that in a moment of revenge he forced her into the pond, where, from the shallowness of the water and the position she was found, it is apparent that she must have been held down with considerable violence in order to destroy her life.

The Times reported: "The body of the deceased presented the appearance of a fine healthy woman of ordinary stature, possessing rather pleasing features, with the exception of a slight bruise on the side of the head, there was nothing to indicate that she had met a violent death.

Both arms, however, bore marks of having been tightly gripped, evidently inflicted while the poor creature was being held under the water."

But while walking together, the deceased snatched a knife from out of the prisoner's pocket and declared she could not bear such a life any longer and made a motion as if to cut her throat.

The prisoner followed and in a phrenzy for which he cannot account except he was full of beer for two days of club revelling and admits that in spite of her struggles and screams he held her down in the water till life was extinct intending after to destroy himself in the state of madness.

"[2] The Bury and Norwich Post on 23 April 1851 reported that: "On Wednesday night the prisoner's father and step mother, brothers, sisters and Mr Payne came to see him.

As the fatal hour approached, the London and Nowton roads and the intervening fields were occupied in every part with a view of the awful scene.

"[2] "The behaviour of the crowd was mainly decorous, shortly after 9 o' clock the death bell was mournfully heard in the air and the fatal procession emerged from the condemned cell, the Chaplain in his surplice read the sentence from the burial service and the under Sheriff, Mr Gooding and Mr Sparke followed the criminal, assisted by the Governor.

It is not possible to provide a complete list of all the publicans (and residents) of the Harrow Inn or the verified dates when they took over or left the public house.

The Bury Free Press on 5 September 1891 reported that the Harrow Inn was offered for sale on Wednesday evening together with a lucrative baking business.