Richard Ashford

Richard Ashford comes from a family which have lived in Morte [Mortehoe] for the past 250 years. He has had a passion for history of the village since he was 14 when after visiting all of the old people in the village, he recordedtheir stories of shipwrecks and smuggling which many years later have been used in his books. He has published three booklets on the history of Morte, and two novels.