The story goes that centuries ago, when sheep stealing was a capital offence, a man stole a sheep from a field at night.

He must have injured the sheep because he was carrying it over his shoulders and had tied its feet together with a rope.

When he reached the lane now known as Hangman's Stone he stopped for a rest, placing the sheep on top of a stone post whilst he himself sat on the ground He then fell asleep.

The story is that the sheep must have slipped off the stone and the rope, which the man had round his body slipped up round his neck and strangled him, so doing the hangman out of a job

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