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Robin Hood's Bay

North Yorkshire coast

A smugglers' village where goods could pass through the houses unseen.

In the 1700s Robin Hood's Bay was one of the busiest smuggling villages on the Yorkshire coast. Many of its houses were linked by secret passages and cupboards.

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When
18th century
Where
54.4340, -0.5340
Group
Pirates

Visiting

Steep cobbled streets; park at the top and walk down.

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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