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The Cornwall Guide - Cornish SmugglersCornwall SmugglersCornwall, with its remote coves and rivers penetrating deep into the Cornish mainland, was prime smuggling territory. Estimate put the number of people involved in smuggling at 100000 (including women and children). Some notorious smugglers set up deceptive lights to lure vessels onto sharp rocks as a deliberate way of causing shipwrecks in the hope of plundering the wreckage. Smuggling may have been so rife due as it avoided having to pay the tax that was payable on luxury goods, such as perfume and brandy, before income tax was invented. Huge profits could be made by avoiding these taxes, which were at their height during the Napoleonic Wars (1780-1815). Evidence of Cornish smuggling can be found all over Cornwall, such as Customs House in Falmouth, where contraband tobacco was burned. Other towns and villages in Cornwall include : |