The smuggling along the Yorkshire coast - Cloughton Wyke
There was a Mrs Elizabeth Harrison (Nee Wharton) who talked openly of her smuggling days. She was 100 years old when she died in Auborough Street in Scarborough.
She resided at Cloughton Hall where her father (a Sunderland ship owner had retired). A lot of contraband cargo was landed.
Her brother was a Captain of a Whitby ship. He successfully ran the blockade during the American War of independence and was handsomely rewarded for doing so.
Cloughton is a remote and difficult part of the coast. Nowadays access to the shore is not via a path but a rope.
In the time of Mrs Harrison the village possessed no guardian of the peace. Then a locally elected shoemaker, storekeeper or farmer served as a Parish Constable.
Sources
- Scarborough Mercury July 15th 1927.
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