Rioters Walk (Part A)
| Activity | : | Walk |
| Type | : | History, Country Escape, Pub |
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| Distance | : | 15.6 miles / 25.1 kms |
| Ascent | : | 705 feet / 215 metres |
| Location | : | SU740336 / GU34 3JS |
| Maps | : | Ordnance Survey maps |
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On Monday 22nd November 1830, a mob several hundred strong attacked the workhouse in Selborne, Hampshire, turned out the occupants, burned or broke the fittings and furniture, and pulled down the roof. The next day an even larger mob, containing some of the Selborne rioters, did the same to the workhouse at Headley, some seven miles away. The parsons in both villages were also coerced into promising to reduce by half the income they took from tithes.
Less than a month later, at a special court hearing in Winchester attended by no less a person than the Duke of Wellington, nine local men were sentenced to transportation (commuted from a death sentence in the case of eight of them), and all but one sailed for Australia in the Spring of 1831 never to return.
In this walk we follow the course of the rioters when, on a cold November day, they marched from Selborne to Headley, ransacked a workhouse, and returned.
Less than a month later, at a special court hearing in Winchester attended by no less a person than the Duke of Wellington, nine local men were sentenced to transportation (commuted from a death sentence in the case of eight of them), and all but one sailed for Australia in the Spring of 1831 never to return.
In this walk we follow the course of the rioters when, on a cold November day, they marched from Selborne to Headley, ransacked a workhouse, and returned.
The trail has been taken from the book Walks through History by John Owen Smith. It has been reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher, John Owen Smith.
On the Trail
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