Enid Porter in Cambridgeshire Customs and Folklore p184, refers to caxton Gibbet in her account of the murder at Monk Field.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caxton_Gibbet
Caxton’s gibbet was rebuilt in 1934 using timbers from an old house in Baldock, only to be cut down in April 1939. Soon after a replacement was erected. (Vanishing Cambridge p85)
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