Moses Carter (1801 - 1860), known as 'The Histon Giant', was a strongman who lived in the village of Histon, near Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
During his life Carter was famous locally for a number of feats of strength, the most well known today being his carrying of a large boulder from a ballast hole on Park Lane to 'Boot corner'.[1] The stone remains there today, in the garden of The Boot Public House.[2]
In 1998 a memorial to Carter was unveiled at St Andrews church in the village, on what was the 138th anniversary of his death.[3]
Carter remains well known in the area, and an image of him carrying his boulder features on the village sign[4]