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Highway Robbery
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A highway robbery and murder took place at Boar's Head in 1840. The grave of John Coulton, the murdered man, with inscribed stone referring to the tragedy, is in Standish churchyard. Standish Hall, then the seat of Charles Standish, MP, was robbed earlier in the same year during his absence at Parliament; jewels and plate to the value of more than £300 being taken.[1]
- ↑ The Rev. Thomas Cruddas Porteus, A History of the Parish of Standish, Lancashire (Published by J. Starr & Son Ltd, Wigan, 1927)
