Shooter's Hill
London · United Kingdom · Road
On the most feared climb of the old Dover Road, robbers rotted in gibbet cages — and a woman in white is still said to be searching for the rest of herself.
The hill where the old Dover Road climbs out of London was for centuries the traveller's dread: dense woods, highwaymen — and on the summit a gallows with gibbet cages where hanged robbers were left to rot as a warning, a sight Dickens fixed in A Tale of Two Cities. In 1844 parts of a murdered woman were found buried on the hillside; the crime was never solved. Ever since, a woman in white has been said to step into the road at night, grieving and searching — by tradition, for the rest of her body. The hill's lore also includes a phantom rider in eighteenth-century dress galloping down the slope and screams from the old gallows crest. Motorists still report night-time figures dissolving in their headlights.
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Where is Shooter's Hill located?
Shooter's Hill is in London, United Kingdom.
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