(Warwickshire Chronicles No. 76)
                              
Bendigo or Abendigo Mitchell was a highwayman who carried out his dastardly trade on the byways of Warwickshire, notably the Warwick - Banbury turnpike and the Fosse Way. He was known to have ridden a horse called Skater who was named after enabling Mitchell to escape capture by riding across the frozen pond at Chesterton Green. Mitchell was eventually caught, tried and hung at Warwick Azizes in the 1770's.

A crossroads on the Fosse Way at Eathorpe has been known as the Bendigo Mitchell Crossroads; whether this is because he was buried there, or his body displayed as a grisly warning to any other would-be highway men is open to conjecture. There is a fork lift truck company which trades under the name Bendigo Mitchell who once had their premises near to the cross roads.

More on this story can be found here: BENDIGO MITCHELL: WARWICKSHIRE HIGHWAYMAN

The doors of the Black Horse Inn in Saltisford near Warwick have a mural celebrating Bendigo Mitchell: