In Congresbury churchyard a lengthy epitaph upon a former inhabitant incidentally tells us that belated highwaymen still troubled these parts in 1830, a period when most other regions had long seen the last of those unknightly “Knights of the Road”:

In Memory of

CHARLES CAPELL HARDWICKE

of this Parish

died

July 2nd 1849

aged

50 years

And was buried at Hutton

His Friends