Smuggling timeline - Scarborough smugglers

Important dates in smuggling history around the Scarborough and Yorkshire coast.

1218-19 Four merchants sold illegal wine at Bridlington
1275 National customs levies introduced.
1320 Customs collectors on wool appointed for Scarborough.
1346 Smuggling of wool outwards reported from Holderness.
1348 King's treasure ship ashore at Flamborough.
1348 Smuggling reported between Scarborough and Berwick.
1367 Hedon ships charged with smuggling wool to Zealand.
1559 Customs quay established at Bridlington.
1671 Board of Customs formed.
1680 Customs Quay appointed at Middle Sandgate in Scarborough.
1690 Porters appointed to attend vessels unloading at Patrington haven.
1701 Yorkshire Customs Officer force was expanded.
1769 Dragoons posted to Yorkshire coast against smuggling.
1777 Smuggler Andrews supposedly active at Saltburn.
1777 Whitby customs house haul of 650 gallons of gin.
1779 Robin Hoods Bay haul of 200 casks of brandy and gin.
1783 Hull Customs house sold vast quantity of smuggled brandy.
1788 A smuggler's vessel taken at Bay was brought into Scarborough.
1823 Smuggler shot a man at Burniston.
1827 Andrews the smuggler supposedly caught at Hornsea.
1832 Scarborough vessel "Mary" at Crouch, Sussex, seized for smuggling.


OTHER ARTICLES
• The Yorkshire smuggler - the smuggling of contraband
• Smuggling of contraband along the Scarborough coast
• Customs Officer during golden age of smuggling in Scarborough
• French merchants and smugglers on the Yorkshire coast
• The life of a Riding Officer or preventative in the golden age of smuggling
• Scarboroughs Heyday of Inns,smuggling and illicit stills
• Smuggling at Robin Hood's Bay
• Thomas Crimlisk - First of the Crimlisks
• The national RNLI and the Scarborough lifeboat of 1861.
• Coastal erosion in the 19th Century around the North Bay and Scarborough Castle area
• The smuggling along the Yorkshire coast - Cloughton Wyke
• Shipbuilding at Scarborough - the wooden barques and schooners
• Robin Hood's Bay - The Storm family website
• The 200 year history of scarboroughs RNLI
• Radio 270 - pirate radio station off Scarborough
• Sharks and big fish along the Robin Hood's Bay coast
• Primitive Methodism amongst the Scarborough Filey and Flamborough fishing communities
• A sea shanty about a storm on the Scarborough coast
• The fishermen and fisheries of Robin Hood's Bay in 1838

HOW TO HELP THIS WEBSITE: Google rates pages posted on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites very highly. So if you have found this site useful please post it using the buttons below.

Tweet