Charlotte Lincroft – Witches of Sussex

Hannah Clarke, a witch who lived here in the 16th Century. At night she’d fly across the town on her broomstick, surveying the coastline for French invaders. She sealed the cats into the brickwork as a charm to ward off the plague.

Margaret Cooper was charged under the witchcraft act of 1563 which made causing death by witchcraft punishable by execution. Maragret admitted guilt and was hung in 1575 making her one of the very few people executed for witchcraft in Sussex.