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Moonfleet

Fleet, near Weymouth, Dorset

The village and crypt behind a classic smuggling novel.

J. Meade Falkner's 1898 novel Moonfleet tells of a boy caught up with smugglers who hide their brandy in the crypt of the village church.

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When
Novel, 1898
Where
50.6200, -2.5300
Group
Pirates

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Fleet Old Church stands near the Fleet lagoon. Chesil Beach is nearby.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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