What is recorded here

This black commemorative plaque records: To the memory of George Henderson traveller Native of Annan, Dumfrieshire, who was barbarously murdered on Rivington Moor at Noonday, November 9th 1838 in the 20th year of his age

George Henderson, a young traveler from Annan, Dumfrieshire, was tragically killed in 1838; his murder on Rivington Moor highlighted issues of rural crime and safety in early 19th-century England.

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