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Richard Turpin (bapt. 21 September 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft.Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher early in his life but, by the early 1730s, he had joined a gang of deer thieves and, later, became a poacher, burglar, horse thief, and killer.
York's Tyburn at Knavesmire Dick Turpin was hanged at Knavesmire in 1739. For many years, Knavesmire was the site of public hangings in York. The gallows were erected in 1379, a few miles outside the city on the main southern approach road (now known as the A1036 Tadcaster Road). [8]
The flats would be built alongside St George's Churchyard, where Turpin's grave is located - although its authenticity is disputed by some historians.
It is believed that, in 1632, the playwright Thomas Dekker was buried in the church. In 1641, the playwright Thomas Heywood was buried in the church. In 1737, Matthew King, accomplice of Dick Turpin, was buried at St James, aged 25, after he was allegedly accidentally shot by Turpin during a robbery.
Dick Turpin and Tom King used the forest as a hideaway, and Jack Rann, known as "Sixteen String Jack", had a pub named after him in Theydon Bois. [96] Turpin had a hideout there. [97] The tree cover and the forest's location close to London have made it notorious as a burial area for murder victims.
After executions, the bodies would be buried nearby or in later times removed for dissection by anatomists. [13] The crowd would sometimes fight over a body with surgeons, for fear that dismemberment could prevent the resurrection of the body on Judgement Day (see Jack Sheppard, Dick Turpin or William Spiggot). [14]
Noel Fielding stars in Apple TV+'s 'The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin,' a comedic take on the 18th century British highwayman.
Dick Turpin knew Epping Forest well and organised many criminal activities from a base between the Loughton Road and Kings Oak Road, which in legend became known as 'Turpin's cave'. [1] After an incident in May 1737, Turpin escaped to Epping Forest, where he hid (according to accounts "in a cave").