Where Is the Tyburn Tree Plaque?

The junction of Tyburn Road (now Oxford Street) and Tyburn Lane (now Park Lane) provides its precise location. Today a stone plaque on a traffic island near Marble Arch marks the place where the gallows once stood. After 1571 a triangular-shaped gallows was erected which reached approximately six metres.

Does the Tyburn tree still exist?

Never an actual tree, Tyburn Tree was the site of public hangings, possibly established as early as 1108, the first recorded execution was in 1196.

When was the last execution at Tyburn?

The Tyburn gallows were last used on 3 November 1783, when John Austin, a highwayman, was hanged; for the next eighty-five years hangings were staged outside Newgate prison.