The highest point at Hindhead Common is Gibbet Hill at 272 metres (892 ft).
In 1786 a sailor was brutally murdered by three men which he had befriended (in a local pub in Thursley) whilst walking from London to the docks in Portsmouth.
The three villains were tried and then hung on Gibbet Hill, near the site of the murder, as a warning to other criminals.
After the hanging many fears and superstitions arose around Gibbet Hill and in 1851 Sir William Erle, an English lawyer, judge and Whig politician, paid for a Celtic cross to be erected to banish these fears and raise the local spirits.
The Celtic cross is listed as Grade II listed monument by English Heritage.
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Date: 02/10/2018
Location: Hindhead Common, Surrey
Photographer: Ron Leggat, ARPS