Combe Gibbet - top of Gallows Down, Berkshire
Combe Gibbet at the summit of Gallows Down, near the village of Combe in Berkshire (formerly Hampshire). On March 7th 1676, adulterous lovers George Bromham (or Broomham) and Dorothy Newman were hanged on this gibbet for the murder of two of the women's children
Picture No
11091596
Media ID
46701514
Size
3637px x 5716px
(1.3MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1920s
