In 1818 a jealous 16-year-old from Litton poisoned her friend with an arsenic-laced cake – within sight of the Wardlow Mires gibbet. She was hanged at Derby a few months later.
Topic: Peter’s Stone
Derbyshire’s last gibbet
In 1815 a young Litton man strangled the Wardlow Mires toll-keeper for her money and a pair of red shoes. His body was hung in chains near Peter’s Stone for years afterwards.