Poorly Located Monument record NKT 080 - Post Medieval roadside burial of a suicide

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Summary

Roadside burial of a suicide, 1784. Formerly recorded as NKT MISC

Location

Grid reference TL 64 63 (point) Poorly located
Map sheet TL66SW
Civil Parish NEWMARKET, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (3)

Full Description

1784: roadsice burial of a suicide. Newmarket, John White, servant at the Ram Inn, hanged himself. "Buried in a cross road" (S1; Bury and Norwich Post 25 Nov 1784).

Formerly recorded as NKT MISC

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <S1> Bibliographic reference: Folklore Journal. Halliday R,'Roadside Burial of Suicides: An East Anglian Study, Folklore 121, April 2010, 91.

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Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

May 21 2020 8:38AM

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