Inscription on the Red Hart public house, Bucklersbury

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Inscription on the Red Hart public house, Bucklersbury

Image: © John Lucas Taken: 20 Sep 2006

The last Hitchin public hanging said to have taken place in the yard of the pub. Other sources report that the hanging was of a highwayman in 1868. Greene King closed the pub in 2017 but it subsequently reopened as the Kite at the Red Hart.

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51.946471
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