 It appears in the second series of the BBC Four television series "Detectorists".In 1555 Aldham Common was the location for the martyrdom of Dr Rowland Taylor, the rector of Hadleigh, during the Marian Persecutions of Protestants.An unhewn stone, probably dating from the early 17th century, marks the place of Taylor's death, where the B1070 Lady Lane meets the A1071 Ipswich Road.