Definitions for "Tyburn"
Tyburn was the site for public hangings in London throughout most of the eighteenth century. Blake saw the "Tyburn Procession" of doomed men and women as a vestige of Druid ceremonies of human sacrifice. Tyburn was rarely used after 1780, but executions continued at a somewhat reduced rate elsewhere.
The Tyburn is a stream in London, which runs underground from South Hampstead through St. James's Park to meet the River Thames at Pimlico near Vauxhall Bridge. It is not to be confused with the Tyburn Brook which is a tributary of the River Westbourne.