OWLERS, SCARECROWS AND WITCHES IN EGGSHELLS
This is an excerpt from the book "Life On Marsh" Available here
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Dungeness and Romney Marsh have a long tradition of mystery, hauntings
and supernatural goings on. To a large extent the area was a no-go area
for much of the last couple of thousand years. Although the area was
largely inaccessible because of its geography and topography, not to
mention its reputation for being a very unhealthy environment (the Marsh
was the last place where malaria was endemic in Britain and it was only
eradicated in the early twentieth century), a large part of its unwelcoming
reputation was deliberately cultivated by the local population, including its upper
classes. It would have been virtually impossible for a high volume of contraband to
be processed through the area without the involvement or compliance of nearly
everybody resident there. This deliberate isolation was essential for the wide range
of illicit goings on, which needed to be carried out in secrecy so there was as little
risk as possible (even the penalty for wool smuggling was death).The area was
considered so ungovernable by the Crown that it boasted its own currency and
parliament until well into the nineteenth century.
This is an excerpt from the book "Life On Marsh" Available here
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