Crime in The Giggs Hill Area
Horace Walpole wrote of the dangers of the Portsmouth Road in 1784:
- 'But here is a worse calamity; one is never safe by day or night: Mrs Walsingham, who has bought your brother's late house at Ditton, was robbed a few days ago in the high road, within a mile of home, at seven in the evening.'
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- (Letter 275 to Hon HS Conway. By 'Mrs Walsingham', Walpole was referring to the mother of Charlotte Boyle Walsingham).
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Portsmouth Road and the surrounding commons were notoriously dangerous. There was the serious risk of both footpads (i.e. unmounted robbers) and highwaymen. Tom Waters, Jerry Abershawe, Evan Evans, William Hawke and Thomas Banks were all hanged in the 17th/18th centuries for banditry on the Portsmouth Road.
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