A family of murderers and Llanfair Caereinion's Gibbet Hill
EVEN today the steep climb from Manafon to Llanfair Caereinion is known as the Gibbet. The gibbet had been an oak tree and is thought to have been first used in August 1735. There are two varying stories of its origins. The first is that a family of innkeepers in nearby Manafon had taken to killing and robbing their guests and buried them in nearby woods. The family is only recorded as the Lloyd’s and among their victims had been a Scottish pedlar. The family was said to have hanged in chains on a hill near their former residence at a place called the Coed.