Tom Otter's Bridge, at Drinsey Nook, which carries the A57 between Sheffield and Lincoln. The left hand end is in Nottinghamshire, the right hand end in Lincolnshire. The bridge itself isn't much, but see below for the fascinating tale of Tom Otter.
1805 - the pregnant Mary Kirkman named Tom Otter as the father of her unborn child, and he was forced to marry her. On their wedding night, be beat her to death with a fence post.
1806 - Tom Otter is found guilty and sentenced to death, and the judge, thinking 'hanging's too good for him', orders his body, after execution at Lincoln, to be enclosed in chains and hung from a gibbet post at the scene of the murder (close to the bridge). This duly happens. A large crowd is present at the erection of the gibbet post, and one man is killed when the body, enclosed in irons, falls from the gibbet.
1811 - A Featherpoke (long-tailed tit) is reported to have built its nest under his jawbone, and returned the following year.
1850 - the gibbet post is blown down in a gale
Those are the bare facts. The gibbet post was a local landmark for 45 years, with the chains clanking in the wind, but remained part of local folklore for many years afterwards, and appeared in children's rhymes until 1900, and is also mentioned in a syndicated thriller in 1874. On the current OS maps, within a square mile are Tom Otter's Lane, Gibbet Wood, Gibbet Wood Farm, and Gibbet Lane Cottages.
It is also reported that the fence post used in the murder was attached to the wall in the Sun Inn, Saxilby, where Mary Kirkman's body was taken. On the anniversary of the murder, the post would disappear from the wall and would be found at the scene of the murder. This continued when it was placed on the wall of a different pub. In the end the Bishop of Lincoln ordered that it should be taken down and burnt in the yard of Lincoln Cathedral.
The blood which had dripped from the body stained the steps of the Sun Inn, and no amount of scrubbing could remove the stains. [OT Non-bridge photo, but taken from the bank of a canal and within sight of at least 2 bridges]
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