THIS IS FINDON VILLAGE — these Findon Chronicles were created by Valerie Martin and contain scenes from her home village of Findon,
West Sussex, U.K.    Everyday stories about real people.    In fact a potted history of the village.

Crimes and Punishments

Church Hill above Findon — the scene of a brutal murder. Watercolour by Charles William Taylor, Findon Artist, 1878-1960.

This is Findon — the website containing everything you are ever likely to want to know about crimes in Findon.

Copyright Valerie Martin 2012

Articles in chronological date order —

1100s /1300s — Crimes Connected with Findon

 1278 — A French Connection
1279 — Murder on Church Hill

 1288 — A Man, a Woman and a Priest
1500s — Crimes Connected with Findon
1558 — William Wilkins' Mistake
1584 — The Pig Thief
1595  — Elizabethan Sheep Rustling
1600s/1700s — Crimes Connected with Findon

 1605 — Chicken In The Basket

 1835 — Robbery at the School

 1771 — Findon's Mounted Postboy
Slaying Most Foul
1800s — Crimes Connected with Findon
1800s — The Highwayman Came Riding.
1933 —  Raiders of a Local Post Office Pass Through Findon
1934 — Manhunt at Tolmare Farm Assisted by Local Bloodhounds
1940s — The Mystery of the Bootmaker's Death
1940s — Nurse Joan Day's Account of George's Death
The Norman Stone Mystery
1949 — Jewel Thieves at Muntham Court
1954 — The Policeman's Holiday

 1960 — Murder of a Findon Explorer
1965 — The Late Roger Moulds Reporting from the C.I.D. of the Met.
1986 — A Scrawny Rubber Chicken, a Blunderbuss and a Cake
1987 — Mark Palmer
1988 — The Murder of the Findon Duchess
2001 — Fugitives Find Findon Hideaway

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THIS IS FINDON — was launched in January 1999 and will grow to be a historical record of life in Findon, West Sussex, U.K.

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