Dick Turpin's grave
Reputed grave of an executed highwayman in an old churchyard, marked by a weathered headstone.
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This guide to Dick Turpin's grave in York starts not in York but in a small Essex post office in February seventeen thirty-nine, with a former schoolmate of Turpin's collecting his mail beside a letter nobody would pay for. It moves between a prisoner in York Castle calling himself John Palmer, a village magistrate, and the gallows field on the Knavesmire. Stand by the headstone in the old St George's churchyard while you listen.
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