The neighbouring village of Chew Magna has in its graveyard an early 19th-century limestone round-topped stone which bears the inscription to William Fowler "shot by an Highwayman on Dundry Hill 14 June 1814 aged 32 years".
He returned to Alligator Records in 2005 with the live album, Live! Highwayman.
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James Hind (sometimes referred to as John Hind, died 1652), 17th century highwayman
Not all highwaymen were well-born like French aristocrat Claude Duval or James MacLaine, who was the second son of a minister, but this romanticized portrayal extended to such working-class robbers as MacLaine's partner William Plunkett, as well as Richard Ferguson, George Lyons, Richard Ferguson, Tom King, John Nevison, and John Rann.
Easy to perform, well-known to the audience, and with simple exciting stories, the deeds of famous highwaymen, robbers and murderers, such as those featured in The Newgate Calendar were popular subjects for the plays.
Humphrey Kynaston, who later became infamous as Wild Humphrey Kynaston, the highwayman, who operated in the area to the North West of Shrewsbury.
The highwayman Claude Duval is reputed to have stopped here for his last drink on the way to his hanging at Tyburn in 1670.
In medieval times it was a village home to the Uissigheim family, of whom the most infamous member was the highwayman and persecutor of the Jews Arnold von Uissigheim (executed 1336).