10 best smugglers' pubs

For walkers

The Eels Foot Inn, Eastbridge, Suffolk

East Anglia was famed in the 18th and 19th centuries for its contraband tobacco and liquor from France and Holland, and the region's coastal marshes and remote beaches were a perfect cover: once eight thousand gallons of gin were smuggled in without Customs suspecting a thing. This cosy pub was a favoured haunt of smugglers but is now popular with walkers, cyclists and bird watchers, as it's near the RSPB Minsmere reserve. Open daily (01728 830154, www.theeelsfootinn.co.uk).