Boxmoor, Hertfordshire, England
Snook's Grave
Boxmoor Common
In 1802, Robert Snooks became the last highwayman to be hung in England. He was buried at the scene of his crime where robbed a post boy on the turnpike on Boxmoor Common. Two stones, erected by the Box Moor Trust in 1904, mark the spot.
For further information, please read Haunted Britain by Antony D. Hippisley Coxe.
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Boxmoor, or Boxmoor Village, is a district of Dacorum in Hertfordshire, England.
It is now part of Hemel Hempstead. It is a district of mainly 19th century housing and meadowland, repeatedly cut through by transport links from London to the Midlands.
Pictured left is Snook's Grave, Boxmoor courtesy of Rob Farrow. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
