There is a wealth of reading material available on the subjects of local history and smuggling - both in the immediate area and slightly further afield. Our 'Top Tips' for reading material are:-

'Smuggling in the British Isles' by Richard Platt

Published by Tempus Publishing Ltd ISBN-10: 075244249 ISBN-13: 978-0752442495 And, if you can find it:-

'Smugglers' Dorset' by Robert Westwood

ISBN: 978-0-9552061-4-6 The following extensive list contains many of the relevant titles. Most of these should be available either from the Bournemouth Library or Dorset County Library.

Local authors writing about smuggling

• Chacksfield, K. M. 1978 Smuggling Heritage around Bournemouth
• Chacksfield, K. M. 1969 Smuggling Days
• Coe, A. F. 1975 Hants and Dorset 's Smugglers
• Gutteridge, R. 1984 Dorset Smugglers
• Hardy, E. 1955 Thomas Hardy's Notebooks
• Hardy, W. M. 1978 Smuggling Days in Purbeck
• Morley, G. 1983 Smuggling in Hampshire and Dorset 1700-1850
• Oakley, R. 1944 Smugglers of Christchurch, Bourne Heath and the New Forest
• Rawlings, K 2005, Just Bournemouth Dovecote Press
• Short, B. C. 1969 Smugglers of Poole and Bournemouth
• Showell, C. & Gutteridge,R. 1997 Smugglers' Trails: pub walks in Dorset
• Sydenham, J. 1839 History of Poole
• Treves , F. 1906 Highways and Byways of Dorset
• Warne, C. 1856 Ancient Dorset
• White, A. 1973 Eighteenth Century Smuggling in Christchurch
• Young, D. S. 1957 Story of Bournemouth

Southern England

• Anon, 1826, Topographic and Historical Account of Hayling Island
• Bettey, JH, 1974, Dorset
• Carson Edward A, 1974, Smugglers and Revenue Officers in the Portsmouth area in the C18
• Chackfield, Kathleen Merle, 1978, Smuggling Heritage around Bournemouth
• Chackfield, Kathleen Merle, 1969, Smuggling Days Coe,
• A Farquharson, 1975, Hants and Dorset's Smugglers Cornish Magazine VI JB Cornish, Annals of the Smugglers
• Dowling, RFW, 1978, Smuggling on Wight Island
• Foster, D Arnold-, 1938, At war with the smugglers Gentleman's Magazine 1802
• Guttridge, Roger, 1984, Dorset Smugglers; Dorset Publishing Company; ISBN 0 902129 90 2 Hampshire Countryshire, V 1 and 2 Hampshire Notes and Queries (Winchester), V 9 Hampshire, the County Magazine (Ringwood), Vs 8, 12, 26
• Hardy, Evelyn, 1955, Thomas Hardy's Notebooks
• Hardy, William Masters, 1978, Smuggling Days in Purbeck
• Hutchings, Richard J, 1985, Smugglers of the Isle of Wight
• Legg, Rodney, 1972, Purbeck Island
• Lloyd, Rachel, 1976, Dorset Elizabethans
• Mac Gregor, R, 1823, Life of R. MacGregor
• Mew, Fred , 1986, Back of the Wight Milford on Sea Record Society An Occasional Magazine 1912 November Miniature War Games June 1987
• Morley, Geoffrey, 1983, Smuggling in Hampshire and Dorset 1700-1850; Countryside Books; ISBN 0 905392 24 8 Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset, V II-IV, XVIII and XXIX
• Oakley, E Russell, 1920, A guide to Christchurch Priory
• Oakley, Eric Russell, 1944, The Smugglers of Christchurch, Bourne Heath and the New Forest
• Omand, Rev Dr. W.D., 1965, Chideock, its church...
• Page, William, 1908, Victoria County History of Dorset
• Parry, J.D., 1833, History and Descriptive Account of...Sussex
• Rawlings, K 2005, Just Bournemouth Dovecote Press
• Roberts, George, 1823 , History of Lyme Regis and Charmouth
• Short, Bernard Charles, 1969, Smugglers of Poole and Bournemouth Society of Dorset Men in London, Dorset Year Book 1955-60 Somerset and Dorset Family History Society, The Greenwood Tree v 4 and 5 Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries vIII Sussex Archaeological Collection, 1858,1902 Sussex County Magazine, v 4, 8
• Sydenham, John, 1839, History of Poole
• Treves, Sir Fred, 1906, Highways and Byways of Dorset
• Warne, Charles , 1856, Ancient Dorset
• White, Allen, 1973, Eighteenth Century smuggling in Christchurch Windsor Magazine, 1919, Sep 1919
• Young, David S., 1957, Story of Bournemouth