Dick Turpin’s Cottage

Dick Turpin’s Cottage is located in Thaxted (UK) but there is no actual documentary evidence that Dick Turpin ever lived in the house and there is only very slight evidence that he ever lived in the Thaxted at all.

Thaxted has a long history as is evident from the Domesday Book (completed in 1086) which records Thaxted as a well established and prosperous community by the end of the Saxon period.

Turpin's father was a butcher and inn-keeper. Several stories suggest that Dick Turpin may have followed his father into these trades; one hints that as a teenager he was apprenticed to a butcher in the village of Whitechapel, while another proposes that he ran his own butcher's shop in Thaxted