61472 There was a gallows at the junction of Canwick Hill and Heighington Lane. The Master of the Preceptory of the Hospitallers of Maltby paid St Catherine's priory for burying all persons hanged on the city gallows on Canwick Hill, and for inscribing their names in the book of the 'Fraternity of St John the Baptist'. {1} In about 1846, in face of the new railway competition, the Lincolnshire horse-breeders (with a view to keeping the stage-coaches on the road) persuaded the authorities to make a deep cutting near the top of the hill to ease the gradient. The Heighington Lane had to be cut down to the new level, and the mound at the foot of the gallows was cut away for the purpose. It was on the site of the vicarage. {1}{2} Wilkinson, in his Lincolnshire guide says 'The site of the gallows was levelled many years ago when some skeletons and corroded weapons were found'. {3}