Tyburn uncommon to see mothers brushing their child's cheek with the hand of the condemned. The gallows at Tyburn were, furthermore, sources of cadavers for surgeons and anatomists. Tyburn Tyburn was a village in the county of Middlesex close to the current location of Marble Arch and the southern end of Edgware Road in present-day London. It took its name from the Tyburn Brook, a tributary of the River Westbourne. The name Tyburn, from Teo Bourne meaning 'boundary stream', is quite widely occurring, and the Tyburn Brook should not be confused with the better known River Tyburn, which is the next
Park Lane from a short terrace of houses approximately where now are Nos. 93–99. Tyburn Lane took its name from the former Tyburn village which had declined in the 14th century. The Tyburn gallows, or Tyburn Tree, at the end of what is now Park Lane, was London's primary public place of execution until 1783. Author Charles Knight wrote in 1843, by 1738 "nearly the whole space between Piccadilly and Oxford Street was covered with buildings as far as Tyburn Lane, except in the south-western corner about Berkeley Square and Mayfair". In 1741, the Kensington Turnpike Trust took over its maintenance, as