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Remembering the North East Witch Trials: From Newcastle’s Town Moor to the Derwent Valley Consett Magazine
Most people have heard of the Salem witch trials. Far fewer realise that one of England’s largest witch trials ended in a mass execution here in the North East, while fear and accusations of witchcraft also reached communities around the Derwent Valley. On 21 August 1650, a crowd gathered on Newcastle’s Town Moor to witness one of the darkest events in the region’s history. A group of people convicted of witchcraft, nearly all of them women, wer…
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Remembering the North East Witch Trials: From Newcastle’s Town Moor to the Derwent Valley Consett Magazine
Most people have heard of the Salem witch trials. Far fewer realise that one of England’s largest witch trials ended in a mass execution here in the North East, while fear and accusations of witchcraft also reached communities around the Derwent Valley. On 21 August 1650, a crowd gathered on Newcastle’s Town Moor to witness one of the darkest events in the region’s history. A group of people convicted of witchcraft, nearly all of them women, wer…
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