Lincoln's Inn Fields

Lincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London and occupies a space that locals once knew as Purse Field and Cup Field. These grounds were originally used for grazing livestock, but in the sixteenth century, they became a notorious venue for public executions. In fifteen eighty-six, the conspirators of the Babington Plot were hanged, drawn, and quartered here, and nearly a century later, Lord William Russell was beheaded in the center of the square for his role in the Rye House Plot.