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The Turpin's Inn pub dates from some time in the 19th century as it was visited by John
Davidson in 1893 who complains in his "Random Itinerary" of being made to pay a deposit for the drinking pot there. A housing development has since been built over the pub but next to it was a fenced-off dug-out
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as Dick Turpin's Cave and the name was applied to a pub at that location B H Cowper, who excavated
Loughton Camp in the 1870s referred to maps identifying Turpin's cave within the camp, but found no evidence of a cave there. However an identifiable dug-out was visible in the 19th century as in 1883
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Dick Turpin knew Epping Forest well and organised many criminal activities from a base between the
Loughton Road and Kings Oak Road, which in legend became known as 'Turpin's cave'. After an incident in May 1737, Turpin escaped to Epping Forest, where he hid (according to accounts "in a cave"). He
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Though several locations for Turpin's hiding place were suggested, legend attributed it to a site off
Wellington Hill at High Beach. D'Oyley, the Loughton surveyor, who drew up the maps for the Epping Forest Commission in the 19th century marked the area to the north of
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wrote "Turpin's Cave is as much one of the exhibitions of Epping Forest as Turpin's Oak is of
Finchley Common, and who shall begrudge to the admirers of each, in these unromantic and prosaic days, the indulgence of their tastes".
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was seen by Thomas Morris, a servant of one of the Forest's keepers close to what is now 'The Robin Hood' pub. Morris armed with pistols, attempted to capture Turpin on the 4th of May; Turpin however shot and killed him with a
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in the clay and gravel soil described as Turpin's Cave, all or part of which was visible when the photograph was taken in the 1960s.
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