If you're born and bred in the county, you can rightfully claim to be a 'Moonraker'.

But who were the first Moonrakers?

There are many communities who lay claim to originating the story but the one we favour is set in Devizes where a group of sixteenth century smugglers were forced to hide their contraband in The Crammer after being surprised by a visit from the excisemen.

As a ruse, the smugglers pretended they were attempting to rake a 'cheese' that had rolled into the water.

The excisemen, seeing the men were in fact raking the moon's reflection, left the simple country-folk to their labours and rode out of town, unaware that the Wiltshire men were having the last laugh!