Gubbins band

Gubbins band

The Gubbins band was a group of footpads, sheep-stealers, beggars, cutpurses, cut-throats and highwaymen who inhabited the area around Lydford in Devon around the time of the English Civil War. Their leader, one Roger Rowle, has been variously characterised both as a blackhearted villain and as the Robin Hood of Dartmoor. The Gubbins are depicted in Charles Kingsley's novel "Westward Ho!". They also appear in the novel "Warleigh" by Anna Eliza Bray.

Further reading

*United Devon Association. "The Book of Fair Devon". Exeter, 1900.

External links

* [http://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/gubbins_lydford.htm Legendary Dartmoor: The Gubbins' of Lydford]


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