GREAT LINFORD HISTORY
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Criminal & Coroner's Cases in Great Linford


​Delve into the criminal past of Great Linford with this selection of crimes and misdemeanours, plus cases put before coroner's juries, often held at the Nags Head.

Coroner’s Juries

Cases include the tragically mundane, such as that of John Brown, who in 1786 fell from a roof he was thatching, to a terrible accidental drowning of a child on one of the frozen manor ponds and also sadly a number of suicides. Read more about Coroner’s Juries in Great Linford.

Fraud and Deceit

Included here is the story of a fraudster and aspiring author whose brief time in Great Linford was marred by his attempt to deceive a London jeweller. It’s a tale worthy of a work of fiction including accusations of poisoning and a mysterious meeting on a millionaires yacht, but was Alfred Ernest Druce making it all up? Learn more about fraud and deceit in Great Linford.

Poaching

The romantic idea of a lone poacher putting a rabbit in the pot to feed his family is no doubt rooted in fact, but poaching was also committed on a much larger scale and by gangs of men willing to fight violently against the gamekeepers. Read more about the poachers and gamekeepers.

Theft

In 1797 a Highwayman passed through Great Linford, but exciting though the tale is, he was no Dick Turpin. Crime was much more likely to be light fingered opportunism, such as the theft of some clothing from the Nags Head by a character known to the police as Raffling Ginger, but some wasn’t quite so light fingered, such as the iron bars stolen from a canal barge that almost got its two perpetrators transported to Australia. Read more about theft in Great Linford.

The Stocks

Though the evidence is sparse, it does appear that Great Linford had it’s very own set of stocks, in which local miscreants were incarcerated to contemplate their wrong-doings. Notable amongst them was a serial offender named James Conquest. Read more about James and the Great Linford stocks.

Violent Crime

It would be surprising indeed if Great Linford had not recorded a murder, but violent crime seems to have been surprisingly rare, but here you can read about a brawl at Lodge Farm that got fatally out of hand in 1920 and an attempted shooting in 1816. Read more about violent crime here.

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  • About Great Linford
  • Education
    • Prichard's Charity School
    • Slade's School
    • St. Andrew's School >
      • The Story of St. Andrew's School
  • Great LInford Manor Park
  • Industry & Commerce
    • Brick Making
    • The Canal >
      • A Disaster Averted?
      • The Newport Pagnell to Great Linford Canal
    • Farming History
    • Pubs & Brewing
    • The Railway Station & line >
      • Newport Nobby on fIlm
      • Railway Tales from Great Linford
  • Law & Order
    • Cases >
      • Coroner's Juries
      • Fraud and Deceit
      • Poaching
      • Theft
      • The Stocks
      • Violent Crime
    • Policing
  • The Manor
    • The Manor Houses
  • People
    • Harry Bartholomew
    • The Cole Family
    • Kizby and Kezia Rainbow
    • The Scriveners
    • The Meads
    • Reverend Richard Napier
    • Uthwatt, Kings Andrewes & Bouverie >
      • John Uthwat (?-1674)
      • Daniel King (1670-1716)
      • Richard Uthwatt (1658-1719)
      • Richard Uthwatt (1699-1731)
      • Thomas Uthwatt (1693-1754)
      • Henry Uthwatt (1728-1757)
      • Frances Uthwatt (1728-1800)
      • Rev Henry Uthwatt Andrewes (1755-1812)
      • Henry Andrewes Uthwatt (1787-1855)
      • Reverend William Andrewes Uthwatt (1793-1877)
      • Augustus Thomas Andrewes Uthwatt (1798-1885) >
        • Andrewes v Uthwatt
      • William Francis Edolph Andrewes Uthwatt (1870-1921)
      • William Rupert Edolph Andrewes Uthwatt (1898-1954)
      • Stella Katherine Andrewes Uthwatt (1910-1996)
      • Other notable Uthwatts
    • The Ward & Robe Families
    • Sir William Prichard and family >
      • The Contested Subjects
    • Memories of Great Linford
  • Places
    • Farms >
      • The Black Horse Farm
      • Church Farm
      • The Cottage
      • Grange Farm
      • Great Linford House
      • Linford Lodge
      • Lodge Farm
      • Marsh Farm
      • Windmill Hill Farm
      • Wood Farm
      • Wood End Farm
    • Pubs >
      • The Black Horse inn
      • The Nags Head
      • The Wharf Inn
      • The White Horse & The Six Bells
  • Politics
    • A first political rally
    • The Conservative Association
    • Fisticuffs and dirty tricks
  • Religion
    • The Congregational Chapel >
      • Stories from the Chapel
    • St. Andrews Church >
      • The Bells
      • Monumental Inscriptions
      • St. Andrews Gravestones A-H >
        • St. Andrews Gravestones I-R
        • St. Andrews Gravestones S-Z
      • The Rectors >
        • Edmund Smyth
        • Francis Litchfield
        • Lawson Shan
        • Robert Chapman
        • Sydney Herbert Williams
        • William Smyth
      • The Stained Glass Windows
  • Sport
    • Blood Sports >
      • The Bucks Otter Hunt >
        • The Bucks Otter Hunt on film
        • Hunting glossary
        • Hunt staff
        • Opposition
        • The otterhounds and kennels
    • Boxing
    • Cricket
    • Darts
    • Football
  • Visiting
  • Blog