14/09/2026
This evening, we enjoyed a very interesting talk on the Huntingdon Witch Trials...and learned some new stuff in the process, too! ๐งน
A few interesting bits we jotted down:
- Huntingdon was one of the centre of witch trials, with at least three witch trials taking place here.
- Huntingdon was one of the busiest roads in England, being a good place for travellers to stop due to it being a direct route between York and London.
- Archeologists discovered remains of a gallows at Mill Common, where the hangings from the famous case of the Warboys Witches took place. No skeletal remains have been found near the gallows as of yet.
- One of the last people sentenced under the Witchcraft Act 1735 was Helen Duncan, a spiritualist medium who was exposed as a fraud and imprisoned in 1944.
Thank you to Stuart Orne & The Cromwell Museum, Huntingdon and Heritage Open Days for a really interesting evening!