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Hannah Hewitt
In 1732 in Derby, Hannah Hewitt was murdered by poisoning.
Her husband, John Hewitt, was having an affair with Rosamund Olleranshaw - a woman who worked at a pub in Derby called the Crown Inn - and the two conspired to murder Hannah so they could be together. They enlisted Eleanor Beare, a local woman known for procuring poison and the landlady of the Crown Inn, to help carry out their plan. Eleanor supplied the poison, which was used to contaminate some pancakes. Hannah consumed the poisoned food and died as a result.
After an investigation John Hewitt. Rosamund Ollerenshaw and Eleanor Beare were apprehended and questioned. Though Eleanor was released through a lack of evidence, John and Rosamund were executed for murder.
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Hannah’s ghost is said to haunt the Mill Street area of Derby.
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LOCATION: Mill Street, Derby
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CONNECTION: As well as being the location of sightings of the ghost of Hannah Hewitt, Mill Street also hosts a church with a connection to Derby's crime and punishment history. That connection is a man called Francis Goodwin. Goodwin designed both St. John's Church, which is located on the corner of Mill Street, and also Vernon Street Gaol which served as Derby's County Gaol from 1828 to 1916.
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Derby History Walks
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Come and join us for a 90-minute walk full of revelations, curses, deaths, superstitions, evil doers and much more!!
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5.30pm to 7.00pm - walk commences from the Derby Uncovered Heritage Centre at 11 Sadler Gate, Derby.
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Tickets are £10 per person.
Learn all about Derby's most notorious murders and murderers on Derby's murder walk - not for the faint-hearted!!
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VARIOUS DATES
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5.30pm to 7.00pm - walk commences from the Derby Uncovered Heritage Centre at 11 Sadler Gate, Derby.
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Tickets are £10 per person.
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True, but weird, Derby history including frogs falling from the skies, ghouls roaming the town, historic hot dogs, mummified cats & more.
VARIOUS DATES
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5.30pm to 7.00pm - walk commences from the Derby Uncovered Heritage Centre at 11 Sadler Gate, Derby.
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Tickets are £10 per person.
A walk full of tortured spirits who met a grisly end including both the murderers and their victims
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VARIOUS DATES
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5.30pm to 7.00pm - walk commences from the Derby Uncovered Heritage Centre at 11 Sadler Gate, Derby.
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Tickets are £10 per person.
