Crossword clues for tyburn
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
place of public execution for Middlesex from c.1200 to 1783; it stood at the junction of modern Oxford Street, Bayswater Road and Edgware Road.
Wiktionary
Wikipedia
The Tyburn is a stream in London, which ran underground from South Hampstead through St James's Park to meet the River Thames by Whitehall Stairs (near Downing Street and Thorney Street, between Millbank Tower and Thames House). It is not to be confused with the Tyburn Brook which is a tributary of the River Westbourne that is the next Thames tributary to the west on the north bank.
Tyburn may refer to the following places in England:
London- Tyburn a medieval village, now part of central London, named after Tyburn (stream), a river in London.
- the unrelated Tyburn Brook, a tributary of the River Westbourne
- the Tyburn Tree, a place of public execution.
- Tyburn, West Midlands, an electoral ward in Birmingham
Usage examples of "tyburn".
For bushrangers he would have a modern Tyburn, but this and other tragic suggestions lacked conviction when confronted with his verdicts given as Justice of the Peace.
Every day felons died of the virulent fevers which often emptied the cells quicker that the carts bound for Tyburn.
Blake, eager to return to the spectacle of the condemned felons being carted off to Tyburn.
He was, in fact, best pleased to be known as plain Titus Oates, and would chortle heartily over his chances of tracing a pedigree back to the notorious inventor of the Popish Plot who was whipped from Aldgate to Newgate and from Newgate to Tyburn some three hundred years ago.
Tell him I was whipped from Aldgate to Newgate, and from Newgate to Tyburn.
From the hag who had told her of the poor girl's hanging upon Tyburn Tree, she learned things by close questioning which, to the old woman's dull wit, seemed but the curiousness of a great lady, and from others, who stood too deep in awe of her to think of her as a mere human being, she gathered clues which led her far in the tracing of the evils following one wicked, heartless life.
On the anniversary of the late King’s death, the bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw, were torn out of their graves in Westminster Abbey, dragged to Tyburn, hanged there on a gallows all day long, and then beheaded.
And the report was that Kensie had two men’s likability, while his brother Ian, now approaching Tyburn, had a double portion of grim shadow and solitary darkness.
Days when notable public executions were held at London’s main gallows - Tyburn, at Hyde Park corner - were usually public holidays.
On the day when James Whitney - the highwayman who resisted capture for an hour - was taken to Tyburn, he was one of eight men who were sentenced to hang simultaneously on the triangular shaped scaffold that had been erected in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
The misty low-lying island, still largely covered by the bramble bushes that gave it its name, with the muddy bank of the tidal river on one side and the marshes of the Tyburn brook on the others, presents a bleak mid-winter scene in contrast to the sheltered homeliness of Horstede.