Title

'Little Wenlock and the Whekin. The Old Hall', 1898. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

'Little Wenlock and the Whekin. The Old Hall', 1898. The Wrekin is a prominent and well-known hill in East Shropshire. 11-year-old Alice Glaston from Little Wenlock was hanged together with two men in Much Wenlock on 13 April 1546, for an unknown crime. She is the youngest known girl legally executed in Great Britain. From "Our Own Country, Volume V". [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1898]

Date

1898

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19G25_061

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

59,8Mb (4,1Mb) / 16,9in x 13,8in / 5070 x 4125 (300dpi)

Keywords

travel exterior Wrekin outdoors scenic countryside hill hills building buildings England field fields people male man men landmark historical house houses architecture arts country book guy view British geography English farmland scenery location Victorian century vista Britain literature concept United Kingdom B&W Shropshire hedgerow tourist attraction country house stately home Day inset 19th century black & white black and white background people nineteenth century history tourism The Print Collector geographical feature Old Hall TGN outside engraving landscape Unknown Cassells Co Cassell & Co Cassell and Company Ltd Cassell & Company Cassell & Our Own Country Little Wenlock