What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Welcome to Hawkhurst This Kentish Wealden village once important in the cloth and iron industries and later for the growing of hops was home of the notorious Hawkhurst Gang of smugglers in the 1700s Look out for the plaques of historical interest Recorded plaque organisation: Hawkhurst Heritage.
Hawkhurst, a village in Kent known for its past in cloth and iron industries and later for hop cultivation, gained notoriety in the 1700s as the home base of the Hawkhurst Gang, a group of ruthless smugglers.
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