Field and heath · Kent and the Narrow Sea
Gallows Field
Gallows Field lies beyond Maidstone on the Boxley road, and the condemned are taken out to it for hanging. Assize week fills the town with strangers and pickpockets, and the field draws a crowd, so travellers are advised to avoid that week. Margery Fennick of Old Green is held awaiting the assize.
- Within
- Maidstone
- Named in
- Travelling Britannia
Where the volumes speak of it
- LiB2 › Chapter 6 — Maidstone and the County › 6.6 The Guildhall, the Bench, the Assize, and the Watch
- LiB2 › Chapter 6 — Maidstone and the County › 6.8 After Dark
