The Sailor's Stone stands beside the old Portsmouth Road climbing over Hindhead in the Surrey Hills, now landscaped following the construction of Hindhead Tunnel. It bears the inscription;

ERECTED
In detestation of a barbarous Murder
Committed here on an unknown Sailor
On Sep, 24th 1786
By Edwd. Lonegon, Mich. Casey & Jas. Marshall
Who were all taken the same day
And hung in Chains near this place
Whoso sheddeth Man's Blood
by Man shall his Blood be shed.

The Unknown Sailor
sung to the tune of 'The Calico Printer's Clerk' written by Dave Moran of The Halliard
after The Halliard (Dave Moran, Nic Jones and Nigel Paterson) discovered the song in the Harkness Collection of broadsides in the Harris Library, Preston.

From his home in London
An Able Seaman strode
Back to his ship he made his trip
Upon the Portsmouth Road
At the village inn in Thursley
He stopped to buy a round
And there three men he did befriend
They too were Portsmouth bound

Chorus; As you travel on life's journey
             You'll meet your fellow man
             But take great care for while you share
             Others take what they can

On the lonely climb up Hindhead
Those men made their attack
And with a knife they took his life
And made off with his pack
Now those cut-throats hang in irons
On the top of Gibbet Hill
To show us all what will befall
Those who treat others ill

Chorus

A stone stands by the wayside
To mark where he was killed
All travellers know no grass will grow
Where that red blood was spilled
In quiet Thursley churchyard
The unknown sailor sleeps
His kin still yearn for his return
From sailing on the deep

Chorus