https://murder-stones.org/ A crowdsourced archive of murder stones — inscribed markers raised at the sites of violent death across Britain. en-gb Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:10:18 +0000 https://murder-stones.org/stones/the-written-stone.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/the-written-stone.html Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:09:59 +0000 UPDATED FROM A VISITOR SUBMISSION (Ben Simpson, 8 Sep 2026), then independently checked against Historic England's own listing and against the primary 19th-century source itself. Historic England (list entry 1147440, listed 22 Nov 1983) confirms the https://murder-stones.org/stones/william-deighton-murder-stone.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/william-deighton-murder-stone.html Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:09:59 +0000 Genuinely one of the most famous stories in Yorkshire criminal history, and a real oddity worth flagging: LOCATION MYSTERY - the murder happened in Halifax, and the criminal gang responsible were based in Cragg Vale, several miles away, yet this ston https://murder-stones.org/stones/the-robbers-stone.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/the-robbers-stone.html Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:09:59 +0000 COORDINATES CORRECTED (submission, Sep 2026): this entry previously gave coordinates for the wrong one of the two linked monuments. The coordinates now shown are for the roadside stone at Gore Cross, on the verge of the A360 south of West Lavington, https://murder-stones.org/stones/bill-o-jack-s-grave-slab.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/bill-o-jack-s-grave-slab.html Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:09:59 +0000 THIN SOURCING - only found via one local history blog so far, worth independent verification. William Bradbury, an elderly innkeeper known as 'Bill o' Jack's', and his son Thomas were beaten to death at their inn on Saddleworth Moor in April 1832. De https://murder-stones.org/stones/scotsman-s-stump.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/scotsman-s-stump.html Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:09:59 +0000 UPDATED FROM AN ANONYMOUS VISITOR SUBMISSION (8 Sep 2026, same IP address as Ben's Written Stone submission 31 minutes earlier - unconfirmed whether it's also him), then checked in detail against David Holding's 'Murder in the Heather' (read in full https://murder-stones.org/stones/fanny-adams-headstone.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/fanny-adams-headstone.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Found via a Find a Grave search. One of the most notorious Victorian child murders, and the origin of the British phrase 'sweet Fanny Adams'/'sweet FA'. On 24 August 1867, eight-year-old Fanny Adams was abducted from Flood Meadow, Alton, Hampshire, b https://murder-stones.org/stones/william-white-headstone.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/william-white-headstone.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Found via a Find a Grave search. On Sunday evening, 11 December 1808, William White, a well-off yeoman farmer of Hoo St Werburgh on the Hoo Peninsula, Kent, was shot dead through his own pantry window while sitting by the fire with his family - the g https://murder-stones.org/stones/dialgarreg-the-revenge-stone.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/dialgarreg-the-revenge-stone.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 GEOGRAPHY CORRECTION - originally flagged as a Herefordshire/English-border lead ('the Hatterall Ridge Stone'), but the stone itself, and the killing it marks, are on the Welsh side, in Powys near Patrishow, in the Black Mountains. If it also has an https://murder-stones.org/stones/john-pryor-ledger-stone-burford.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/john-pryor-ledger-stone-burford.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 GEOGRAPHY CORRECTION - flagged to the site's creator as being 'right on the Shropshire/Worcestershire border', but this is actually Burford in West Oxfordshire, a Cotswold town on the Gloucestershire border - a different Burford entirely from the sma https://murder-stones.org/stones/the-bloody-stone-hawk-stone.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/the-bloody-stone-hawk-stone.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Found via a Heritage Gateway full-text search for 'murder stone'. A large red boulder on the pedestrian footway of the A49 Mill Lane, Newton-le-Willows - formerly known as the Hawk Stone, now generally called the Bloody Stone - said to mark a killing https://murder-stones.org/stones/devil-s-ring-and-finger-murder-field-stile.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/devil-s-ring-and-finger-murder-field-stile.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 DOESN'T QUITE FIT - NO MURDER STORY ACTUALLY FOUND, LOGGED FOR TRANSPARENCY. Flagged via a diversion: the site's own creator had a conversation with Google's AI Mode about this archive, and the AI, trying to be helpful, suggested a Shropshire lead ca https://murder-stones.org/stones/the-cantlin-stone-botfield-cross.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/the-cantlin-stone-botfield-cross.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Surfaced via an unusual route - a conversation the site's own creator had with Google's AI Mode, which correctly pointed to a Shropshire/Powys border tourism page for this stone; independently verified here against Wikipedia and cross-checked rather https://murder-stones.org/stones/the-packman-s-brae-stone.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/the-packman-s-brae-stone.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Found via a Historic Environment Scotland full-text search for 'murdered', via a listed-building record for the former girls' schoolhouse that stands on the road named after this killing. Per Historic Environment Scotland's own account: a road at Pol https://murder-stones.org/stones/john-jack-renton-birthplace-6-melvin-place.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/john-jack-renton-birthplace-6-melvin-place.html Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 DIFFERENT CATEGORY - a Category B listed house marking a birthplace, thousands of miles from where the murder actually happened, not an inscribed stone or wayside marker; included on the same basis as this archive's Hannington, Patteson and Fenton en https://murder-stones.org/stones/auchencloy-martyrs-monument.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/auchencloy-martyrs-monument.html Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Found via a Historic Environment Scotland full-text search for 'murdered' (listed as AUCHENCLOY MONUMENT, LB9864). Another entry in the same search - a separate listing for a 'FURGUSSON TOMBSTONE' - adds a preceding detail: that in 1684 one of the fo https://murder-stones.org/stones/appin-murder-cairn-james-of-the-glens-memorial.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/appin-murder-cairn-james-of-the-glens-memorial.html Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Found via a Historic Environment Scotland full-text search for 'murdered'; also flagged independently via Wikipedia's Keppoch murders 'See also' link, since both are well-known Lochaber-area cases. The Appin Murder (Scottish Gaelic: Murt na h-Apainn) https://murder-stones.org/stones/magus-muir-memorials-archbishop-sharp-memorial-five-covenanters-memorial.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/magus-muir-memorials-archbishop-sharp-memorial-five-covenanters-memorial.html Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Found via a Historic Environment Scotland full-text search for 'murdered'. James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews and a deeply controversial figure for his role in suppressing Presbyterian Covenanters after the Restoration, was ambushed on 2 May 1679 https://murder-stones.org/stones/well-of-the-seven-heads-monument-tobar-nan-ceann.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/well-of-the-seven-heads-monument-tobar-nan-ceann.html Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 DIFFERENT CATEGORY - found via a Historic Environment Scotland full-text search for 'murdered', this monument doesn't mark where the original murder victims died, nor their grave - it marks where the killers' own severed heads were washed after being https://murder-stones.org/stones/llwyd-ap-iwan-memorial-stone-arroyo-pescado-nant-y-pysgod.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/llwyd-ap-iwan-memorial-stone-arroyo-pescado-nant-y-pysgod.html Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Found via a Welsh-language search (llofruddiaeth/llofruddio, 'murder'), after Cadw/Coflein/Archwilio themselves turned up nothing - this one came from a Welsh magazine (Barn) article and an academic paper, not a heritage database. Outside the UK/Irel https://murder-stones.org/stones/llidiart-y-barwn-baron-s-gate-unconfirmed-marker.html https://murder-stones.org/stones/llidiart-y-barwn-baron-s-gate-unconfirmed-marker.html Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 UNCONFIRMED PHYSICAL FORM - approximate coordinates only (exact grid reference not confirmed here); worth someone visiting Cwm Dugoed, in the hills east of Dinas Mawddwy/Mallwyd, Gwynedd, to establish whether any marker exists at the gate itself. Fou