Highwaymen (3 pages found in this category)


Dick Turpin

English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. In the popular imagination he is best remembered for a fictional 200-mile ride from London to York on his horse Black Bess.

Jerry Abershaw

18th-century English highwayman.

John Nevison

One of Britain's most notorious highwaymen, executed on 4 May 1684.