GIBBET HILL. 



WOODS OF GROTON. 



I HAVE seen a printed slip, containing on one side a list of 

 the " Woods of Groton," and on the other some suggestions 

 in regard to " Reading." The list comprises 108 names of 

 different trees and woody shrubs, and was made by James T. 

 Bennett, at that time a member of the High School, who had 

 collected specimens of each kind mentioned. It was the re- 

 sult of a recommendation to the scholars, and is referred to 

 in the " Annual Report of the School Committee of the Town 

 of Groton, for the year ending March, 1885 " (p. 8). 



GIBBET HILL. 



A QUERY relative to this Hill appeared on page 388 of 

 "Notes and Queries" (London), May 16, 1896; and several 

 answers to the same were printed on page 432 in the issue of 

 May 30. 



Gibbet Hill is the name of an eminence overlooking the village 

 of Groton, Massachusetts, which has been so called from the ear- 

 liest history of the town. The tradition is that once an Indian was 

 gibbeted on its summit ; but this is known now to be false. I have 

 a notion that the name was brought from home by the original set- 

 tlers, and given to the hill, perhaps from its resemblance to some 

 other hill in the old country. I wish to ask if this is a name ever 

 or often applied to hills in England. S. A G. 



Gibbet Hill (8 th S. ix. 388). — There is a well-known Gibbet 

 Hill on the road from Coventry to Kenilworth. H. K. 



In Halifax a number of the principal thoroughfares are called 

 lanes, — e.g., King Cross Lane, Hanson Lane, Pellon Lane, Gibbet 

 Lane. All these rise gradually from the centre of the town. The 

 latter is occasionally referred to by old inhabitants as Gibbet Hill. 

 At the foot of it, in a cul-de-sac, the dungeon still exists, I believe, if 

 not the gibbet. Gibbet law, or hanging, was at one time in vogue 

 in Halifax, and administered against persons found guilty of steal- 



