The Robber's Stone

Season: 6 Episode: 30

Discover the story behind The Robbers’ Stone, a Grade II listed memorial in West Lavington, Wiltshire. It marks a dramatic 1839 highway robbery and the capture of the culprits—a real-life tale of law triumphing over highwaymen. Tune in to hear how Mr. Dean of Imber was robbed, the pursuit that followed, and the legacy left in stone.

CAST

John Baish - Molly Jefferies

Ben Colclough - Joe Wilson

William Hooper - Marcus Kepple-Palmer

Coroner Whitmarsh - Tony Allen

Monument 1 - Sam Roberts

Monument 2 - Cerise Reed

THIS PODCAST

This podcast has been specially edited from a Bradley Stoke Radio show in Bristol, England. 

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SOURCES

English Chronicle and Whitehall Evening Post - Saturday 08 February 1840

Salisbury Inquests

Parish Council of West Lavington

Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette - Thursday 24 October 1839

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