Highwayman Higgins’ House in Cheshire East, England

Highwayman Higgins’ House in Cheshire East, England

On quiet, leafy Gaskell Avenue in Knutsford stand two white houses known today as Heath House. Their calm façades conceal the story of Edward “Squire” Higgins, a man who, according to local history, lived among the Cheshire gentry while secretly robbing them blind. Parish records show that in 1757, Edward Higgins—described as a yeoman—married Catherine Birtles and settled in Knutsford. To his neighbors, he was every inch the gentleman: he rode w…