“Homeowner Discovers Hidden Room Below Basement That Could Be Part of Underground Railroad,” ABC News, Jun 29, 2016, https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/homeowner-discovers-hidden-room-basement-suspected-underground-railroad/story?id=40218003.
“About the Hotel,” Mermaid Inn, date unknown, https://www.mermaidinn.com/about-the-hotel/.
“The Mermaid Inn,” Ghost Walk Brighton, date unknown, https://ghostwalkbrighton.co.uk/the-mermaid-inn.
“Ghost of Xmas Past,” The Sun, December 2018, https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8001555/mermaid-inn-rye-sussex-haunted-ghost-smuggler-gang.
“Are You Brave Enough to Stay in the Mermaid Inn?,” Spooky Isles, September 2018, https://www.spookyisles.com/mermaid-inn.
“Ghosts of The Mermaid Inn,” The Paranormal Guide, August 2013, http://www.theparanormalguide.com/blog/ghosts-of-the-mermaid-inn.
“Cuppa Thugs: These Brutal Smugglers Ran An 18th Century Tea Cartel,” NPR, February 2016, https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/02/02/465329683/cuppa-thugs-these-brutal-smugglers-ran-an-18th-century-tea-cartel.
Roy Moxham, Tea: Addiction, Exploitation, Empire (Carroll & Graf, 2003).
“The Hawkhurst Gang,” Smuggling.co, date unknown, http://www.smuggling.co.uk/gazetteer_se_16.html.