Is Dick Turpin, the legendary highwayman really connected with Turpin Green ?  Maybe we shall never know.  One fact which we can confirm to our readers, is that Hoghton Towers does have a very definite connection with one William Shakespeare.  Shakespeare apparently, after finishing at University – either Oxford or Cambridge I forget which – became a Tutor to the ‘de Hoghton’s family’ children at Hoghton Towers and worked in that capacity for a couple of years or so.  His duties could not have been very time consuming however, because he found time to keep travelling over to see the Hesketh family at Rufford Old Hall, who in Shakespeare’s later life put up some of the money to build the Globe Theatre in London.  (I don’t think Charlie knew about that connection because he has never mentioned it, and he was very strong on local history).