Wilstone is the name of an England village and a reservoir approximately two miles north-west of Tring, Hertfordshire.

This degradation of conditions caused the village's population to drop to 400 as the workers moved to the city for a better life.

After being turned away the mutterings of the women were mistaken for a curse and soon after the farmer fell ill and the two were believed to be a Wizard and a Witch.

On 14 April a notice was posted in Leighton Buzzard, Hemel Hempstead and Winslow markets which read: This is to give notice that on Munay next there is to be at Long Marcon in the Parish of Tring two ill desposed persons to be ducked by the neighbours consent.As time went on the people grew more hostile towards the Couple forcing them to flee to the Tring Workhouse for their own safety however this proved futile as a massive crowd possibly numbering around 4000 carried the couple away to Wilstone where they were dunked in a pond until death.

The perpetrator named Colley, who had collected money from the mob because of the "enjoyment the ducking had provided", later paid for his actions as he was arrested, tried in Hertford then hung by chains in the Wilstone Green.