The Rottingdean Project : Captain Dunk

 

Situated in Whipping post Lane

Captain Dunks house, once the village butchers shop i believe, apparently under the house there is a network of various tunnels used by smugglers, and on the site of a chestnut tree was where the old whipping post and stocks were located.

 

 

 

 

Captain Dunk was a butcher by day an smuggling gang leader by night, under his house was found that he had dug a cavern that linked onto the network of tunnels the smugglers used, to store his contraband.

There are records of Dunk being fined £500 for his smuggling which was a vast sum of money in those days also ten of his men were sent to Hawsham Gaol or as they saw it they were sent to collage to improve their manners.

Captain Dunk even arranged for some of his own men to be publicly whipped in an attempt to keep his name in the clear.