Monument of William Green, Church Street, Old Hunstanton, Norfolk

Photograph taken 24 June 2001 © Graham Brown LRPS. Source Historic England Archive ref: 221240

This gravestone to William Green was made in 1784. Its inscription gives valuable insight into smuggling in the 18th century. It reads "Here be the mangled remains of poor William Green an Honest Officer of Government who/in the faithful discharge of his duty/was inhumanely murdered/by a gang of smugglers in this parish."

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Norfolk Old Hunstanton

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Georgian (1714 - 1836)

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The village stocks with four ankle holes for the punishment of petty crime and misdemeanor in the village. Although probably used from the Anglo-Saxon period, a statute of 1351 made it law for every township to provide and maintain a set of stocks.

Monument of William Green, Church Street, Old Hunstanton, Norfolk

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