Moses Carter

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.[2]

In 1998 a memorial to Carter was unveiled at St Andrews church in the village, on what was the 138th anniversary of his death.[3]

Carter remains well known in the area, and an image of him carrying his boulder features on the village sign[4]

References

  1. ^ http://www.hisimp.net/history/hishist3.htm
  2. ^ http://www.cambridgetimetraveller.com/live/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=177:histon-and-impington&catid=37:histon&Itemid=53
  3. ^ http://www.st.andrews.histon.dial.pipex.com/moses.htm
  4. ^ http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/398183

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