Established by pirate and smugglers
in the early 18th century this village has earned its living from the sea.
Once a tiny hamlet and now a bustling village with over 500 inhabitants, Bardon
Pond is best known for its most celebrated resident the infamous pirate Charles
Speckthorpe better
known as Carlos the Skull Splitter.
Having escaped execution in Jamaica in 1772 he ended up in Bardon Pond penniless
but full of rage and desperate to revenge himself on the King and his property.
It wasn't long before he had set up a highly efficient smuggling operation that
involved luring many unsuspecting ships to their doom on the ravenous rocks
of Bardon Harbour.
For decades after his family ran the village with a mysterious blood cult that
saw the deaths of hundreds over the years in horrible and mysterious circumstances.
However that's all in the past, nowadays Bardon Pond is a quiet relaxed place,
more famous for being home to many retirees including the renowned actor Herman
Lutz.
Bardon Pond is awash with history and it's talented inhabitants including the
founder of the Illusionism School of PoetryCecil
Hawkings and the renowned watercolouristJonathan
Delacroix.
Carlos The Skull
Splitter depicted by Martin Batley in a macabre woodcut circa 1774.
