Gubbins band

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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.

[edit] Further reading

  • United Devon Association. The Book of Fair Devon. Exeter, 1900.

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