Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Moonrakers" in English language version.
The site of the pond is a matter of fierce...conjecture, with any one of the many Wiltshire towns and villages which boast a pond laying claim to be the home of the original moonrakers at one time or another.
the Crammer in Devizes, a seemingly excellent pond for moonraking used to lie within the parish of Bishop's Cannings.
if the trade of the smuggler seems somewhat an unlikely one...in the heart of the downs of North Wiltshire...whole population[s]...carried cargoes of contraband goods by the little-frequented ridgeways or trackways...and so handed them on to the very middle of England