50-660: The River Tyburn was a stream ( bourn ) in London , England. Its main successor sewers emulate its main courses, but it resembled the Colne in its county of Middlesex in that it had many distributaries (inland mouths). It ran from South Hampstead , through Marylebone , Mayfair , St James's parish/district and Green Park to meet the tidal Thames at four sites, grouped into pairs. These pairs were near Whitehall Stairs (east of Downing Street ), and by Thorney Street, between Millbank Tower and Thames House . Its much smaller cousin,
100-664: A traffic island in the middle of Edgware Road at its junction with Bayswater Road. Between the trees is a roundel with the inscription "The site of Tyburn Tree". It is also commemorated by the Tyburn Convent, a Catholic convent dedicated to the memory of martyrs executed there and in other locations for the Catholic faith. Although most historical records and modern science agree that the Tyburn gallows were situated where Oxford Street meets Edgware Road and Bayswater Road, in
150-492: A 24-by-30-inch (600 by 750 mm) access hole. When assembled, the structure would be longer than the railway tunnel width, so that its ends were supported by ground beyond the tunnel walls. Once all the components had been manufactured, installation work began in June 2018, and continued until October 2018. The scheme was managed by a joint venture comprising Skanska, MWH Treatment, and Balfour Beatty (SMB JV), with Stantec UK Ltd as
200-577: A designer and McAllister Group carrying out the on-site work. The steel truss is expected to last for 120 years without maintenance, while the GFRP liner has a life span of 50 years. The innovative nature of the solution resulted in the project being given a commendation by the Institution of Structural Engineers in 2021. 51°30′49″N 0°08′55″W / 51.5136°N 0.1486°W / 51.5136; -0.1486 bourne From Misplaced Pages,
250-402: A fee. On one occasion, the stands collapsed, reportedly killing and injuring hundreds of people. A hanging as public spectacle was depicted by William Hogarth in his satirical print The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn (1747). Tyburn was commonly invoked in euphemisms for capital punishment: for instance, to "take a ride to Tyburn" (or simply "go west") was to go to one's hanging, "Lord of
300-463: A ghost town Bourne Field , an ex-military airstrip on St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands People [ edit ] Bourne (surname) John Cooke Bourne , British artist, engraver and photographer William Bourne (disambiguation) Fiction [ edit ] Jason Bourne , a fictional character in novels by Robert Ludlum and the film adaptations Bourne (novel series) ,
350-574: A hundred in Farnham , Surrey Bournes Green , a hamlet in Gloucestershire; also (separately) a suburb of Southend-on-Sea, Essex Bourne Mill, Colchester , a National Trust property in Essex US [ edit ] Bourne, Massachusetts , a town Bourne (CDP), Massachusetts , a census-designated place in the town Bourne High School Bourne station Bourne, Oregon ,
400-877: A series of novels originally by Robert Ludlum Bourne (film series) , a film series based on the novels Other uses [ edit ] Bourne (stream) , an intermittent stream, flowing from a spring Bourne baronets Bourne Co. Music Publishers , an American music publisher Bourne shell , in Unix Bourne stone , in Bourne, Massachusetts Bourne United Charities , a charitable body in Bourne, Lincolnshire See also [ edit ] Bourne Brook (disambiguation) Bourne End (disambiguation) Bourne Park (disambiguation) River Bourne (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with Bourne All pages with titles containing Bourne Borne (disambiguation) Bourn , Cambridgeshire,
450-522: A site next to the stream in 1196. William Fitz Osbert , a populist leader who played a major role in an 1196 popular revolt in London, was cornered in the church of St Mary-le-Bow . He was dragged naked behind a horse to Tyburn, where he was hanged . In 1537, Henry VIII used Tyburn to execute the ringleaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace , including Sir Nicholas Tempest, one of the northern leaders of
500-518: A village in England Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bourne . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bourne&oldid=1242164102 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
550-561: Is also known as the Aye and the Kings Scholars Pond Sewer, though it has to be remembered that the word "sewer" originally referred to an open channel used for the drainage of surface water, and it was illegal to pollute them with offensive material prior to 1815. Before it was culverted then used as a sewer, this 7-mile (11 km) brook rose from the confluence of two streams in the hills of South Hampstead, deriving from
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#1732766279535600-572: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tyburn#Tyburn gallows Tyburn was a manor (estate) in London , Middlesex , England, one of two which were served by the parish of Marylebone . Tyburn took its name from the Tyburn Brook , a tributary of the River Westbourne . The name Tyburn, from Teo Bourne, means 'boundary stream'. The parish, and probably therefore also
650-478: Is fully enclosed by concrete, bricks, parks and roads, flowing through underground conduits for its entire length, including one beneath Buckingham Palace . Several streets, including Marylebone Lane , Jason Court, Gees Court, South Molton Lane then Bruton Lane, defy the grid system of streets as the streets follow the former path of the Tyburn on what was its left bank through Marylebone village. Most of its catchment drains into soakaways in gravel soil, in turn into
700-424: Is rendered as Teo-burna , a name which is thought to mean "two-burn". This may refer to the two branches of the Tyburn which passed through Marylebone and converged to the north of Oxford Street. Ekwall, writing in 1928, suggested that the name meant boundary stream as it followed a course between Lilestone manor and Tyburn manor, but this is now questioned, as both of the river banks were in Tyburn manor. The Tyburn
750-473: Is reported that the majority of the condemned did so. A noose was then placed around their neck and the cart pulled away, leaving them hanging. Instances of pickpocketing have been reported in the crowds of executions, a mockery of the deterrent effect of capital punishment , which at the time was considered proper punishment for theft. Sites of public executions were significant gathering places and executions were public spectacles. Scholars have described
800-533: The Tyburn Brook , was a tributary of the Westbourne and the next Thames tributary (west, on the north bank). A charter of AD 959 appears to mention the river, which it refers to as Merfleot , which probably translates as Boundary Stream , a suggestion reinforced by context, with the river forming the western boundary of the estate described. It is also mentioned in Edgar's Charter, dating from AD 951, where it
850-506: The 1230s and 1240s, the manor was held by Gilbert de Sandford, the son of John de Sandford , who had been the chamberlain to Eleanor of Aquitaine . In 1236, the City of London contracted with Sir Gilbert to draw water from Tyburn Springs, which he held, to serve as the source of the first piped water supply for the city. The water was supplied in lead pipes that ran from where Bond Street station stands today, 800 m east of Hyde Park , down to
900-737: The 1400s. In the 12th century, the Sheriff of London had been given the jurisdiction in Middlesex, as well as in the City of London. Prisoners were taken in public procession from Newgate Prison in the City, via St Giles in the Fields and Oxford Street (then known as Tyburn Road). From the late 18th century, when public executions were no longer carried out at Tyburn, they occurred at Newgate Prison itself and at Horsemonger Lane Gaol in Southwark . The first recorded execution took place at
950-481: The 18th century it was also known as "God's Tribunal". Hangings at Tyburn often included a sometimes raucous procession of the condemned from Newgate Gaol in the City -- at the end of the 18th century, the hangings were moved to Newgate. The manor of Tyburn, and the neighbouring Lisson , were recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and were together served by the parish of Marylebone , itself named after
1000-584: The January 1850 issue of Notes and Queries , the book collector and musicologist Edward Francis Rimbault published a list of faults he had found in Peter Cunningham's 1849 Handbook of London , in which he claimed that the correct site of the gallows is where 49 Connaught Square was later built, stating that "in the lease granted by the Bishop of London, this is particularly mentioned". Tyburn
1050-488: The Manor of Tyburn" was the public hangman, "dancing the Tyburn jig" was the act of being hanged. Convicts would be transported to the site in an open ox-cart from Newgate Prison. They were expected to put on a good show, wearing their finest clothes and going to their deaths with insouciance . On 19 April 1779, clergyman James Hackman was hanged there following his 7 April murder of courtesan and socialite Martha Ray ,
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#17327662795351100-691: The Pilgrimage and the King's own Bowbearer of the Forest of Bowland . In 1571, the Tyburn Tree was erected near the junction of today's Edgware Road , Bayswater Road and Oxford Street , 200 m west of Marble Arch . The "Tree" or "Triple Tree" was a form of gallows , consisting of a horizontal wooden triangle supported by three legs (an arrangement known as a "three-legged mare" or "three-legged stool"). Multiple criminals could be hanged at once, and so
1150-484: The Second World War, and the second option was to hang a new structure from these. However, further investigation showed that the slabs were not sufficiently robust for this to be safe. The solution adopted was to construct a Vierendeel truss within the existing sewer, fitted with a glass fibre reinforced plastic (GFRP) liner. The entire structure was made of small modular parts, which could be fitted through
1200-672: The St Giles Bowl appears to have been administered at a number of inns (or perhaps one inn under a number of names) in St Giles, each successively being referred to as "The Bowl". According to Walter Thornbury in his classic London Old and New , "The Bowl" would appear to have become associated with the "Angel Inn" on St Giles High Street. In 1873, the City Press feared that the Angel Inn, another memorial of ancient London,
1250-408: The body on Judgement Day (see Jack Sheppard , Dick Turpin or William Spiggot ). The first victim of the "Tyburn Tree" was John Story , a Roman Catholic who was tried for and convicted of treason. There is a plaque to the Catholic martyrs executed at Tyburn in the period 1535–1681 at 8 Hyde Park Place, the site of Tyburn convent. Among the more notable individuals suspended from the "Tree" in
1300-523: The broad ravine between Barrow and Primrose Hills . Its main source was the Shepherd's Well near Fitzjohns Avenue , Hampstead. At Green Park, the waters split into distributaries , creating Thorney Island on which Westminster Abbey was built. As the map shows, these again split in two, one in the then lower, thus typically Spring tide immersed bank , where Whitehall sits, the other close to Vincent Square , Pimlico, Westminster. The river's current path
1350-537: The building lines and street layout to Thorney Street close to Lambeth Bridge , whilst a fourth distributary forms the natural collect for a 3-metre (9.8 ft) sewer pipe, King's Scholar's Pond Sewer, to the Victoria Embankment interceptor, saving it from discharging west of Vauxhall Bridge . The Kings Scholars Pond Sewer was constructed between 1848 and 1856. When the Metropolitan Line
1400-660: The chalk water table beneath or into the two-type and hybrid type of drainage set out in Victorian London . In the Tyburn's depression run key (lateral) sewers which connect to Bazalgette 's west-to-east Interceptor sewers . From its source at the Shepherd's Well near Fitzjohns Avenue in Hampstead its successor is Scholar's Pond Sewer southward along that avenue through the Swiss Cottage part of South Hampstead under Avenue Road to Regent's Park. To enter
1450-497: The execution of Katharine Knowland, "When she came to Tyburn, all the crossbeams were pulled down; so she was tied up on the top of one of the upright posts, and hung with her back to it." One of the first mentions of the gallows being used again was on 7 October 1759, when four people were executed on the "new moving gallows" which afterwards was "carried off in a cart". The executions were public spectacles which attracted crowds of thousands. Spectator stands provided deluxe views for
1500-437: The execution, around midnight, the sexton of St Sepulchre's church , adjacent to Newgate, recited verses outside the wall of the condemned. The following morning, the convicts heard prayers, and those who wished to do so received the sacrament . On the day of execution, the condemned were transported to the Tyburn gallows from Newgate in a horse-drawn open cart. It was about three miles (5 km) from Newgate to Tyburn, but as
1550-416: The executions at Tyburn as "carnivalesque occasion[s] in which the normative message intended by the authorities is reappropriated and inverted by an irreverent crowd" that found them a source of "entertainment as well as conflict." This analysis is supported by the presence of shouting street traders and food vendors and the erection of seating for wealthier onlookers. Additionally, a popular belief held that
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1600-493: The following centuries were John Bradshaw , Henry Ireton and Oliver Cromwell , who were already dead but were disinterred and hanged at Tyburn in January 1661 on the orders of the Cavalier Parliament in an act of posthumous revenge for their part in the beheading of King Charles I . The gallows seem to have been replaced several times, probably because of wear , but in general, the entire structure stood all
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1700-418: The gallows were used for mass executions, such as that on 23 June 1649 when 24 prisoners (23 men and 1 woman) were hanged simultaneously, having been conveyed there in eight carts. After executions, the bodies would be buried nearby or in later times removed for dissection by anatomists . The crowd would sometimes fight over a body with surgeons, for fear that dismemberment could prevent the resurrection of
1750-552: The hamlet of Charing ( Charing Cross ), along Fleet Street and over the Fleet Bridge, climbing Ludgate Hill (by gravitational pressure) to a public conduit at Cheapside . Water was supplied free to all comers. The junction of the two Roman roads had significance from ancient times, and was marked by a monument known as Oswulf's Stone , which gave its name to the Ossulstone Hundred of Middlesex . The stone
1800-489: The hand of an executed criminal could cure cancers, and it was not uncommon to see mothers brushing their child's cheek with the hand of the condemned. The gallows at Tyburn were sources of cadavers for surgeons and anatomists. The sole male representative to the Kildare Geraldines was then smuggled to safety by his tutor at the age of twelve. Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare (1525–1585), also known as
1850-471: The manor, was bounded by Roman roads to the west (modern Edgware Road ) and south (modern Oxford Street ). The junction of these was the site of the famous Tyburn Gallows (known colloquially as the "Tyburn Tree"), now occupied by Marble Arch . So, for many centuries the name Tyburn was synonymous with capital punishment : it was the principal place for execution for London and Middlesex criminals and convicted traitors , including many religious martyrs . In
1900-458: The mistress of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich . The Tyburn gallows were last used on 3 November 1783, when John Austin , a highwayman , was hanged; for the next eighty-five years, hangings were staged outside Newgate prison. Then, in 1868, due to public disorder during these public executions, it was decided to execute the convicts inside the prison. The site of the gallows is now marked by three young oak trees that were planted in 2014 on
1950-402: The modern Tyburn is a sewer. The stream's southward route followed Lansdowne Row, the north-east of Curzon Street then White Horse Street and the pedestrian avenue of Green Park to the front gates of Buckingham Palace (foot of Constitution Hill) from where one mouth used the depression of St James's Park Lake and Downing Street to reach two close-paired mouths. A third distributary is untraced in
2000-500: The park's perimeter the part-foul (combined) run is carried enpiped over the Regent's Canal then culverted. The Tyburn gave its name to the former area of Tyburn , a manor of Marylebone , which was recorded in Domesday Book and which stood approximately at the west end of what is now Oxford Street , where from late medieval times until the 18th century traitors were left following hanging at Tyburn Gallows . Tyburn gave its name to
2050-508: The place where the crime was committed; or burning at the stake; and being drawn and quartered , of which the latter two were common in cases of treason . The last days of the condemned were marked by religious events. On the Sunday before every execution, a sermon was preached in Newgate 's chapel, which those unaffiliated with the execution could pay to attend. Furthermore, the night before
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2100-425: The predecessors of Oxford Street and Park Lane —Tyburn Road and Tyburn Lane, respectively. Grays Antique Centre near the junction of Oxford Street and Davies Street claims that the body of water which can be seen in an open conduit in the basement of its premises is part of the Tyburn; it is undoubtedly close to the culverted course of the stream. The Londonist website describes this suggestion as "fanciful", as
2150-446: The space needed by the trains. Thames Water , who own the sewer, looked at ways to rectify the problem. Three options were considered. The first involved replacing the bridge and strengthening the walls of the tunnel, but this would have involved closing the railway for three months, at a cost of some £30 million, in addition to the cost of the work. Above the sewer there were reinforced concrete slabs, thought to have been installed during
2200-582: The stream. The original name of the parish was simply Marybourne, the stream of St Mary; the French "le" appeared in the 17th century, under the influence of names like Mary-le-Bow . Domesday showed that the manor was held, both before and after the Norman Conquest, by the Barking Abbey nunnery. The Domesday survey records it as having eight households, suggesting a population of around 40. In
2250-500: The streets were often crowded with onlookers, the journey could last up to three hours. The cart usually stopped at the "Bowl Inn" public house in St Giles High Street. This was the "halfway house". Here the condemned were allowed to drink strong liquors, wine or strong ale . The draught itself was described in a 19th century ballad as being of a "nutty brown ale drunk from a 'broad wooden bowl' ". At various times
2300-512: The time in Tyburn. After some acts of vandalism , in October 1759 it was decided to replace the permanent structure with new moving gallows. These remained until the last execution in Tyburn, probably carried out in November 1783. On the night of Wednesday, 28 March 1759, part of the gallows was blown down. Further evidence of the fixed gallows's disrepair was noted on Friday, 22 June 1759 with
2350-477: Was about to pass away. The Angel was remodelled in 1898 and stands to this day. Having arrived at Tyburn, the condemned found themselves in front of a crowded and noisy square; the wealthy paid to sit on the stands erected for the occasion, in order to have an unobstructed view. Before the execution, the condemned were allowed to say a few words; the authorities expected that most of the condemned, before commending their own souls to God , would admit their guilt. It
2400-422: Was constructed in the early 1860s, it used cut and cover techniques to excavate the tunnels for the underground railway. At Baker Street station , the railway passed beneath the Kings Scholars Pond Sewer, which was supported by a bridge structure attached to the side walls of the tunnel. By the late 2010s, the bridge and sewer had settled below their original level by 6.5 inches (166 mm), and were encroaching on
2450-634: Was covered over in 1851 when Marble Arch was moved to the area, but it was shortly afterwards unearthed and propped up against the Arch. It has not been seen since it was stolen in 1869. Although executions took place elsewhere (notably on Tower Hill , generally related to treason by gentlemen), the Roman road junction at Tyburn became associated with the place of criminal execution for the City of London and Middlesex after most were moved here from Smithfield in
2500-448: Was primarily known for its gallows, which functioned as the main execution site for London-area prisoners from the 16th through to the 18th centuries. For those found guilty of capital crimes who could not obtain a pardon, which accounted for about 40%, a probable destiny was to be hanged at Tyburn. Other contemporary methods of punishment that may have been used as alternatives to Tyburn included execution, followed by being hung in chains at
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