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An isolated village with its houses grouped around a 7 acre green, a 14th century church with a parson’s pele tower and earthworks of a Norman castle.
At Sten Cross on an unclassified road off B6341 near Elsdon at a height of 1040ft, is a lonely gibbet known as ‘Winter’s Stob’, where, in 1791, Willie Winter was hanged for murdering an old woman. A head of wood is fixed to the gibbet. His body was later hung in chains at this spot.
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- Landmark