The Gibbet Stone is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1960. Memorial stone.
The Gibbet Stone
- WRENN ID
- former-sentry-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waverley
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1960
- Type
- Memorial stone
- Address
- The Gibbet Stone, London Road, Thursley
- OS grid reference
- SU 897 357
- Coordinates
- 51.11428, -0.71878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gibbet Stone is a memorial stone erected in 1787 by James Stillwell of Cosford House and renovated in 1889 by his descendant James John Russell. Made of sandstone and shaped like a gravestone, it stands approximately 3 feet high and 2 feet wide. The stone commemorates the murder of an unknown sailor on September 24, 1786, by three other sailors—Edward Lonegan, Michael Casey, and James Marshall—who were apprehended the same day and hanged in chains at the site of the murder on April 7, 1787. The inscription on the back was recut in the 19th century. Although the stone has been moved several times, it has returned to its original location beside the Old Portsmouth Road, which in 1786 ran over the top of Gibbet Hill.
Local climate
The Gibbet Stone receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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