Eastbridge is a tiny village close to the coast at Dunwich. It's claim to fame is the Eel's Foot Inn, now used by walkers and bird watchers visiting nearby Minsmere but if you go there in the evening and talk smuggling then you might hear some really interesting tales.

But I'm no expert so below is an extract from Smuggling in the British Isles: a History by Richard Platt For more detail visit his website www.smuggling.co.uk

The pub at Eastbridge, the Eel's Foot Inn, had a long-standing association with the free-trade, but also served as a billet for dragoons. This irony would certainly account for the behaviour of the landlady in the account of the Crocky Fellows (see Thorpeness and Saxmundham). Generally the pub seems to have managed to maintain an uneasy truce between the two opposing sides, though sometimes there were lapses. Thirty years before the Leiston deaths preventive men supported by a detachment of fusiliers had clashed with smugglers at Eastbridge in mid-December. The smugglers proved superior, and the authorities retreated to the nearby Eel's Foot. Evidently exhausted by the struggle the smugglers arrived at the same pub half an hour later to refresh themselves. Lieutenant Dunn, commanding, ordered his men out, and they fired on the smugglers who were stabling their horses in the yard, thus driving them off. Two of the smugglers were captured and sent to London for trial.
Theberton, just a mile or so west of Eastbridge, was also used as point of storage and concealment: kegs were stored under the altar-cloth of the church there, according to contemporary correspondence!

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