This description of The Smugglers of Poole was first published in 1905 by Charles Harper as chapter five in his book ‘The Dorset Coast’.
The Smugglers of Poole
February 22, 2008 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Canford, Dorset, Fordingbridge, Kinson, Poole, Smugglers, Trotman
Dorset Smugglers
January 9, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Dorchester, Dorset, Purbeck, Smugglers
Many Dorset families, my own included, can point to a connection with smugglers somewhere in the past. The following article was originally published in Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset in 1893
The King of the Smugglers
December 12, 2007 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Askerswell, Burton Bradstock, Gulliver, Kinson, Sixpenny Handley, Smugglers
Most Dorset families can point to a smuggler in there past, my own, (although as yet unproved), being no exception. Many of these stories have been documented by Rodney Legg in his fascinating book Dorset Smuggling, and there is an excellent collection of artifacts in the the Portland Museum. However in all the tales of smuggling in Dorset, one man appears more often than any other, and has been give the approbation of The King of the Smugglers and whose operations ranged from Poole in the east to Lyme Regis in the west.
