Gallows Hill

Gallows Hill may refer to:

Place names

British Isles

• Gallows Hill SSSI, Wiltshire, England, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire
• Gallows Hill, Lower Brailes, Warwickshire, England, on the B4035
• Gallows Hill, Cratloe, County Clare, named for execution of rebels by Cromwellian forces here circa 1650
• Gallows Hill, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, place where Pendle witches were hanged
• Gallows Hill, Otley, site of the gallows, now a nature reserve
• Gallows Hill, Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, place where 300 were hanged, 1570
• Gallow Hill Tain, Ross-shire, The last hanging took place in 1762 when, Katherine Ross, a young mother, was hanged for the murder of her child. In more recent times it was surmounted by a flagstaff but that has now disappeared. Today it is still occasionally used for rolling Easter Eggs and, when weather conditions permit, for sledging.
• Gallow Hill, a hill in Scotland

United States

• Gallows Hill, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community in Pennsylvania
• Gallows Hill, Salem, Massachusetts, place where Bridget Bishop was hanged in 1692 as part of the Salem witch trials
• Gallows Hill, Tappan, New York, place where Major John André was hanged
• Gallows Hill, Cortlandt Manor, New York, place where General Israel Putnam hanged British spy Edmund Palmer in 1777

Australia

• Gallows Hill, in The Rocks, Sydney, suburb

Other uses

• Gallows Hill (novel), a 1997 supernatural thriller novel for young adults by Lois Duncan
• Gallows Hill (film), a 2013 American horror film directed by Víctor Garcia

See also

• Galgenberg (disambiguation), the corresponding German name
• Gibbet Hill (disambiguation), a similar name