It is believed Martha Brown, the last woman to be publicly hanged in Dorset, is buried at the site A developer has sought permission to exhume bodies buried at a former prison - despite plans for ...

The public execution of a murderess was the inspiration behind Thomas Hardy's novel 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'. On August 9 1856, a young 16 year old Hardy-along with between 3,000 and 4,000 people ...

Archives show some of the Victorian prisoners incarcerated at Dorchester Officials have agreed the remains of inmates on a former prison site will be exhumed and given a Christian burial ahead of ...

A date has been set for the execution ... on Nursery Road in Dorchester County. Bowman was convicted of murder and arson, third degree, and sentenced to death in 2002. But last-minute appeals ...

‘Prisoners’ were on the loose in a decommissioned jail this weekend as part of the UK’s ... The last woman hanged in public in Dorset, Brown was executed at the prison in 1856 for the ...