Walfords Gibbet

Interesting notes and a wonderful woodland capture with delightful autumnal colour!
Nice link !

Thank you for posting your image in the group
www.ipernity.com/group/west.of.england

Thank you very much Roger. I am really pleased you like itand the link too.
HFF and have a good weekend

Many thanks Roger

Une pure merveille ce sous bois aux couleurs automnales, belle et douce soirée bisous Ecobird

Thank you very much Vero. It is a lovely area, especially when the leaves turn colour and is not far from where we live. There are good views from the gate when it is not too muddy, although partially ruined now by the huge new power station being built and visible in the distance.

Have a lovely peaceful weekend. Kisses

I love the way the curving path leads the eye to the gate, Carol. All the best, Joe

Thank you very much Joe. When it is dry we often stop to admire the view from the gate. You can see for miles but sadly in one direction the view of Hinkley Point power station is a bit of blot on the landscape.

Have a great weekend

Beautiful shot!

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Thank you very much William. It is always worth stopping here. Aside from the colours the shapes of the trees fascinate me.

Have a good weekend and stay safe.

Bellissimi foto,scenario,colori.
Buona giornata, Anto & Pier

Many thanks Anto & Pier. Really appreciated
Have a lovely weekend ahead

joli carol !!
je te souhaite une bonne année 2024 !!

Thank you very much Dominique. The colours and shapes of the trees up here are endless fascinating to me.

Happy New year to you and I hope you have a wonderful 2024

Beautiful; looks so quiet and peaceful !!
hFF

Thank you very much Jaap. It does get busy at the top on the hills especially at weekends as it is quite popular. I like this part where it is quieter and I can enjoy the shapes of the trees and the colours.

HFF and have a good weekend

most beautiful images
Happy Friday and coming weekend:)

Thank you very much Annemarie

HFF and have a lovely, peaceful weekend

TO MUCH BEAUTY

Thank you very much Pam. It is beautiful up there and not too far from home fortunately

Have a lovely weekend. Hugsss!

Really a beautiful looking landscape - and an interesting historical background. HFF, wish you a nice weekend, Carol !

Thank you very much Percy. It has a sad history but it is really beautiful up there.

HFF and have a lovely weekend

HFF und ein schönes Wochenende! Danke für die Informationen!

Thank you very much. A gruesome past but beautiful place to walk today

HFF and have a lovely weekend

splendid. HFF

Thank you very much Trudy.

Happy New Year to you. HFF and have a good weekend

A beautiful place with a gorry name Carol :-) Thanks for telling us the story. Punishment was swift and nasty in those days! I love your framing, with the curve in the path leading to the gate.

HFF Carol and a good and hopefully dry, weekend.

Thank you Rosa. It is lovely up there and whilst the names remain I doubt that most people even wonder at their origins these days. According to the stories they were married only three weeks when he murdered his wife and yet she was already pregnant with their second child. That is a real love/hate relationship!! Sadly they both paid the price in the end.

HFF and have a lovely weekend

Zu deiner sehr schöne Aufnahme hast du auch diese spannende Geschichte hinzugefügt liebe Carol,schön sind diese herbstlichen Farben,die toll rausleuchten :))

Wünsche noch ein schönes Wochenende,liebe Grüße Güni :))

Thank you very much Guni. It was nice to still be able to see the Autumn colours, - they seemed to change colour later this year.

Best wishes and I hope you have a lovely weekend

A lovely image, which doesn't seem matched to its sad and gory past which shows that DV, isn't new. HFF and have a good weekend, Carol.

Thank you very much George. I know what you mean but thought the old place names stick I doubt that many give the history a thought. A strange story really. It seems he was well know and liked as a very amiable man and yet he flipped and killed his wife after just three weeks of marriage, though she was by then already pregnant with her second child. Sadly you are right in that domestic violence is not new but we are more open about it I think nowadays. Victims often feel to blame in some way and ashamed so it has been something of a hidden crime. I sincerely hope that the situation is changing for the better. It shocks me that people are capable of such violence and hatred.

On a happier note HFF and have a lovely weekend

HFF, Carol!

Thank you Stephan. HFF and have a good weekend

Beautiful woodscape, HFF Carol

Thank you very much Isabel. Really appreciated
HFF and have a good weekend

Ein sehr schöner Wald mit einer traurigen Vergangenheit

Thank you very much Reinhard. A sad story from the distant past. It is a lovely place though.

Have a lovely weekend

What a beautiful place, love the cmpo with those curved leading lines, beautiful colors in the folliage,
Whata sad an tragic history, 100 days hanged¡¡¡ wow¡¡¡
HFF Carol
Thanks for share

Thank you very much Mario. They say that getting divorces is too easy nowadays but in this case it may have prevented a double tragedy!!

HFF and have a good weekend

Herrlich! A place To be!!!

Thank you very much Karl. It is the sort of place that lets you relax and enjoy the peace and beautiful surroundings.

HFF and have a good weekend

What a gruesome story for such a lovely scenery!! And an equally gruesome song ;-))
HFF and have a completely different (cheerful, peaceful, and wonderful!) weekend, Carol :-)))

Thank you Edna. Yes it is - I just think divorce would have been so much easier!! I quite liked the haunting quality of the song to be honest but that is just me!!!

HFF and have a great weekend too. I am hoping for a dry one at least!!! *The rain that is - I can't speak for anything else!!)

It would have been. But was it possible or even acceptable back then? Perhaps murder was more acceptable and easier than a divorce??! ;-))) He should have stayed with Ann in the first place and he could have saved himself a lot of trouble!! Oh, the song is cool...once I got used to the story underneath the photo ;-)

Ahhhh...I see what you mean. Well, it's supposed to be dry here...as far as rain goes ;-)

I really don't know Edna. It seems strange that murder might be more acceptable than divorce - but it was quicker and he seemed to be a man in a bit of a hurry. Anne was also pregnant by him by this time!!! It seems he was well liked as when the gallows were not ready they took him to the pub and bought him a drink and he even shook hands with a man who gave evidence against him. Once the cage in which he was left to hang finally disintegrated sympathetic neighbours even buried the body. I would doubt the murder was premeditated as it sounded more like an alcohol fuelled argument which went wrong when she taunted him and he lashed out. He must not have planned it as he could not lift his dead wife's body so rolled her into the ditch as he had no means of moving her and though he hid the knife he did not get rid of his bloody clothes. Who can tell? If as they say he was a pleasant man maybe he had a guilty conscience and that may had added to the situation or he may just have been trying to find the easiest way out of a difficult situation.

No rain here this weekend -Yes!!!! We even have a little sunshine. Hope your weekend is lovely too and I have not depressed you with horrible tales!!

HFF and a happy year 2024!

Thank you very much Bernhard. HFF and a happy and healthy 2024 to you

HFF, and a happy 2024

Thank you very much Erika*Manfred. HFF and I wish you health and happiness for 2024

HFF en mooi weekeinde Carol heerlijke plaat

Thank you very much Fred
HFF and have a good weekend

A nice picture and a spooky story... :-D

Thank you very much Jiří. Really appreciated

Have a good weekend

L'automne dans toute sa splendeur avec ses chaudes couleurs, la percée vers lumière au delà de la barrière est la promesse d'une belle balade !
HFF Carol et une bonne fin de semaine.

Thank you very much Jocelyne. There are lovely long views from the gateway you can see in th picture, but I just love the shapes and colours in the trees. There is almost always something to catch your eye. I played a frustrating gmae with a cheeky little squirrel who would run around the branches when my view was obsured by other trees and then when I got closer he would stay stock still behing the tree trunks until I moved. I gave up int he end. Maybe I will manage to get a photo next time!!!

HFF and have a good weekend

Looks very beautiful there ! HFF and a nice weekend for you !

Thank you very much Ulrich. I like it here. There is generally something nice to photograph and it is quite peaceful.

HFF and have a good weekend.

A very pleasant looking scene Carol. HFF and best wishes for the New Year.

Thank you very much David. HFF and I wish you a good weekend and a happy and healthfy 2024

Beautiful winding path and sad story! HFF, Carol!

Thank you very much Dimas. Yes it is sad, - wasted lives!

HFF and have a good weekend

It seems that there was not a fence strong enough to keep John Walford out of trouble!
HFF

Thank you very much Scott. Not in life anyway Scott although he was 'fenced' in an iron cage after he was hanged and was pulled to the top of the gibbet aand left there.

HFF and have a good weekend

Beyond the bend in the road
by Fernando Pêssoa

Beyond the bend in the road
there may be a well, a castle.
There may be simply more road.
I neither know nor ask.
As long as I’m on the road before the bend
I simply look at the road before the bend,
since I can see only the road before the bend.
It would do no good to look elsewhere
or at what I can’t see.
. . . . . . . .

HFF Best wishes

That is really lovely Dinesh. Thank you very much.

HFF and have a good weekend

A beautiful scene for such a grisly story!
HFF Carol.

Thank you very much Pete. It is quite a story. It also seems that Ann, his former fiance was also pregnant with his child when he was hanged. So many ruined lives!!

HFF and havea good weekend

Super Image Carol beautiful colors.
HFF have a great weekend.
TOZ

Thank you very much TOZ. It is lovely up there.
HFF and have a good weekend

A beautiful place, but what a sad story, Carol!
Thanks for sharing and have a great weekend.

Thank you very much * ઇઉ *. Yes it is very sad. His ex fiance Ann was also preganant by him when he was hanged. So many ruined lives.

HFF and have a good weekend

wonderful scenery and quite a hidden fence.....
thank you for the story - this adss somewhat "life" to the scenery ;-))))
HFF and have a great weekend!

Thank you very much Markus. -)) I think he added plenty of life to it himself although I should not joke about it, but not only was his wife of only three weeks pregnanat with his second child when he cut her throat but his former fiance, Ann was also pregnant by him when he was hanged! It is actually a really sad story though for all concerned

A curving path leading to a fence in a beautiful autumn image and a very sad story to go with!
Thank you for sharing all this Carol !
HFF and a lovely weekend

Thank you very much Adele. The children were the innocents in this messy story but I cannot find out what happened to them

HFF and have a good weekend

what a beautiful scenery, superbly taken !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HFF and again, all the best for 2024 !

Thank you very much Nora. I am pleased you like it

HFF and have a wonderful weekend and best wishes for 2024

This is a most interesting story, thanks for sharing, Carol and HFF.

Thank you very much Christa. A sad tale but it is interesting!

I hope you have a lovely weekend. HFF

Eine grausame Geschichte, aber ein lieblicher Wald.
HFF und ein schönes Wochenende, Carol!

Thank you very much Wilhelm. Yes it is very sad too but I am pleased you like the picture.

HFF and have a good weekend

The history is really interesting, and your perspective really captures the beauty of this spot, Carol. Hard to believe such a sorry moment happened here ….
I think every spot on earth must contain its own treasure trove of long gone tales.
Have a pleasant weekend. I hope you are not adversely affected by the bad weather I am reading about!

Thank you very much Diana. I am sure you are right. Time passes and the past is forgotten but the places keep their names. This was a long time ago - 1789 and I am sure it is popular for how pretty it is and not for the gruesome past!!

Although some parts of Somerset have suffered from flooding we have been fine here fortunately and even have some sunshine today. I feel sorry for those whose homes and businesses have been flooded though, both here and in other countries. It must be heartbreaking.

I hope you are having a good weekend

A very nice place and image but a sad story! Thank you for this information,Carol.
Belated HFF and have a great weekend!

Best wishes
Füsun

Thank you very much Fusun. Yes it is a very sad story. It happened in 1789 so long ago and mostly forgotten now with just the place names to remind us.

HFF and have a lovely weekend

A great capture with an even more interesting story Carol. Full marks for both here. Well done.

Belated HFF, enjoy the rest of the weekend. Herb

Thank you very much Herb. As it happened in 1789 it is long forgotten history mostly but the intriguing place names remain to pique my interest!

HFF and I hope you are having a good weekend and are escaping with little in the way of flooding

A very interesting story, with no happy end. The place, itself, is idyllic, Carol!

Thank you very much Armando. No happy ending as you say, but it is lovely up there.

Best wishes Carol

A sad story to accompany such a nice picture ~ Hanwe Carole

Thank you very much Nick. Sad indeed!

I hope you have had a lovely weekend

Danke für die Einladung mit dir durch den wunderschönen Herbstwald zu gehen, Carol.
Ich wünsche dir weiterhin einen guten Start in neue Jahr
Freundliche Grüße und einen angenehmen Sonntag
Erich

Thank you Erich. You are more than welcome!! I am pleased you like it.
I hope that you are also enjoying a good start to 2024. Best wishes Carol

Love the light and gentle Autumn colours here. Excellent photo.
A belated HFF and wishing you a lovely Sunday, Carol.

Thank you Roger.
Best wishes Carol

A wonderful autumn scene here Carol, very nicely captured. Love the curve of the road and the glimpse of the trees beyond the gate. Thanks for the story!

Best wishes, Doug

Thank you very much Doug. I am pleased you like it. I love how the place names survive and tell their own story long after the events of the past.

Best wishes Carol

A wonderful picture to this scary story!
Have a nice sunday afternoon!