Qualla: Hango Hill https://qualla.com/hango-hill en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Hango Hill https://qualla.com/hango-hill Hango Hill: Introduction https://qualla.com/hango-hill/ Sweet Christ. Sweet Jesus. Cleare cleare cleare. Those were the last words of Illiam Dhone, recorded by the man who carried them out, spoken on this small green mound above the sea on 2 January 1663. He was fifty-four years old. He had served as the island's Receiver General. And he died here because the politics of the English Civil War, and the bitter Restoration that followed, finally caught up with a Manxman who had tried to spare his island a worse fate. Hango Hill is a quiet place today, a grassy hump beside the coast road between Castletown and Derbyhaven, but its name comes from the Norse hanga-haugr, gallows hill, and Manx memory has not forgotten what happened on it.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/hango-hill-wp/gcse-hango-hill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hango Hill: A Hill With Two Names https://qualla.com/hango-hill/ The mound itself is older than any of the stories told about it. A bronze flat axe found here hints at a Bronze Age burial, and there is a long tradition of low coastal hills being used as both meeting places and places of execution. The Norse settlers who named it knew exactly w...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/hango-hill-wp/gcse-hango-hill-a-hill-with-two-names.mp3 0:06 2 full Hango Hill: The Man They Called Brown-Haired William https://qualla.com/hango-hill/ Illiam Dhone — Brown-Haired William, in the Manx — was born William Christian in 1608 into a leading island family. He rose to become Receiver General, one of the highest offices on the Isle of Man. When the English Civil War swept the British Isles, the Stanley Earl of Derby, wh...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/hango-hill-wp/gcse-hango-hill-the-man-they-called-brown-haired-william.mp3 0:06 3 full Hango Hill: A Cold January Morning https://qualla.com/hango-hill/ Accounts of the execution survive in part because the man in charge of it wrote them down. Christian was shot here on 2 January 1663, kneeling, his last words a stammered prayer that has come down through three centuries: Sweet Christ. Sweet Jesus. Cleare cleare cleare. The killi...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/hango-hill-wp/gcse-hango-hill-a-cold-january-morning.mp3 0:06 4 full Hango Hill: What Remains https://qualla.com/hango-hill/ Today the hill is modest — a green rise, the broken stub of the old hall, a plaque, the sound of the sea on one side and the traffic of the A5 on the other. King William's College stands across the road, founded much later by a trust set up in 1668 with the estate of Hango Hill i...

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