Moses Carter

Village sign of Histon featuring Carter

Moses Carter (1801–1860), known as 'The Histon Giant', was a strongman who lived in the village of Histon, near Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

During his life Carter was famous locally for a number of feats of strength, the most well known today being his carrying of a large boulder from a ballast hole on Park Lane to 'Boot corner'.[1] The stone remains there today, in the garden of The Boot Public House.

In 1998 a memorial to Carter was unveiled at St Andrews church in the village, on what was the 138th anniversary of his death.[2]

Carter remains well known in the area, and an image of him carrying his boulder features on the village sign.[3] The house in which the Carter family lived still stands in the Histon High Street.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.hisimp.net/history/hishist3.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.st.andrews.histon.dial.pipex.com/moses.htm
  3. ↑ Histon Village Sign - near to Impington, Cambridgeshire, Great Britain
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