Sowerbutt's History Lesson

The stone barn had stood on the small farm, a mile off the Newmarket Road, for more than two centuries, storing at various times wheat, sugar beet and beans and, in years gone by, housing cattle and pigs during the bitter winters. It had only witnessed violence once before when an escaped French prisoner-of-war had raped a girl against the wall during the Napoleonic wars. A musket ball fired by a private from the West Suffolk Militia ended the Frenchman’s reign of terror over the local villages.
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