Tyburn Tyburn gallows were last used on 3 November 1783, when John Austin, a highwayman, was hanged; for the next eighty-five years hangings were staged outside Newgate prison. Then, in 1868, due to public disorder during these public executions, it was decided to execute the convicts inside the prison. The site of the gallows is now marked by three young oak trees that were planted in 2014 on an island in the middle of Edgware Road at its junction with Bayswater Road. Between the trees is a roundel with the inscription "The site of Tyburn Tree". It is also commemorated by
Highwayman Circus", in which John Cleese played the titular criminal who stole only lupins. In "Blackadder the Third", Mr. E. Blackadder turns highwayman in the episode "Amy and Amiability". In the British children's television series "Dick Turpin", starring Richard O'Sullivan, the highwayman was depicted as an 18th-century Robin Hood figure. Additionally the actor Mathew Baynton played Dick Turpin in "Horrible Histories". A singing highwayman appears in the fourth episode of the animated mini-series, "Over the Garden Wall", "Songs of the Dark Lantern". The highwayman known as Juraj Jánošík (1688–1713) became a hero of many folk legends in the Slovak, Czech, and