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Danehill Parish Historical Society

Hylda & James Rawlings Document Archive

Hylda and James Rawlings were founder members of the Danehill Parish Historical Society. The society's aims were twofold: to introduce members to Sussex history and to undertake original research. The archive contains much of this original work, including photographs and maps, and should be useful to those interested in:

the villages of Danehill, Chelwood Gate, Horsted Keynes and Fletching local manors including Sheffield, Horsted Broadhurst, Duddleswell, Maresfield, Barkham houses and land-holdings within the parishes of Danehill, Fletching, Horsted Keynes local families and individuals the village schools of Danehill and Twyford local churches, chapels trades and tradesmen

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DANEHILL & CHELWOOD GATE

ALL SAINTS AND HOLY TRINITY CHURCH HISTORY

'The Red Book': a description of the newly-built church of All Saints and a short history of Holy Trinity; photocopy of the above; church histories and guides including 'A History and Guide to All Saints Church Danehill' and 'The Churches of Danehill' by D S Rawlings; photostats and inventory of documents relating to the building of All Saint; list of names of the men who built the church; abstracts of the letters of Edward Verrall of Lewes and Laughton, solicitor, on legal matters concerning the conveyance of land and the right of advowson to the proposed church of Holy Trinity, Danehill, 1836 [SPK/E 11/10]; extracts from papers held by Mr L C Hardy on the sale of the Danehill advowson, 1924; abstract of the draft of faculty to take down and remove the old church of Holy Trinity, 25 May 1893 [West Sussex Record Office EP 11/27/122]; copy of the record of the Act of Consecration of the Chapel of the Holy Trinity and Burial Ground, Oct 1836 [WSRO EP 11/26/2 pg 334]; description of the windows and memorials in All Saints compiled by D S Rawlings;


ALL SAINTS CHURCH REFURBISHMENT OF LADY CHAPEL

In 2001 proposals were made to alter the Lady Chapel in the parish church of All Saints, Danehill. This file contains the compromise proposals agreed by the then vicar, Peter Dominy, the Parochial Church Council and concerned members of the congregation. Also in this file is a copy of the July 2001 parish magazine containing a summary by Hylda Rawlings of objections to the proposed changes.


ALL SAINTS CHURCH VISITORS & FUNERALS

Church Visitors Book, 1954-1970; orders of service for funerals held in All Saints' Church including the funerals of Anne Elizabeth Awcock 1957, Margaret Antonia Beamish 1957, Charles Turner Allen 1958, Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil 1958, Eleanor Gascoyne Cecil 1959, Mark Awcock 1959, William James Sale 1976, Keith Oliver 1977; letters from the East Surrey Organists' Association and The Kempe Society re visits


ALL SAINTS CHURCH CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS 1992

Papers generated by the church centenary celebrations 1992, including the souvenir booklet and the flower festival programme with photographs


BAPTIST CHAPEL 'He Who Would Valiant Be' Hylda Rawlings: the history of the Strict Baptists of Danehill; a report in the Sussex Agricultural Express, May 15 1852, of a dispute at the Baptist Chapel brought before the Cuckfield Petty Session


BURIAL GROUND Brief history of Holy Trinity burial ground including extracts from an article in the Sussex Express 1873; an attempt by the Reverend Cornish to contact descendants of those buried in the burial ground of Holy Trinity

Series Folder Description LocationDANEHILL & CHELWOOD GATE

CHURCH PHOTOGRAPHS

Photographs of the churches of Danehill and Chelwood Gate; notes on All Saints Church furnishings and fittings;


PARISH DIARY 1939-1945

Extracts from the Log Book commenced by The Rev Kempe in 1939 and continued by his successors until the end of the war.


PARISH MAGAZINES

Bound copy of the Church and Home for Jan to Dec 1907 with Parish Monthly Magazine sheets for 1907; parish magazines for 1924, Sep 1939, 1970-1975; photocopy of Rev Walter Summers Parish Letter from the parish magazine of 1891


PARISH REGISTERS FILE

Typescript list of baptisms registered at Holy Trinity Chapel, 1851-1900;


PARISH REGISTERS CARD INDEX

Card index of baptisms, marriages and burials in Danehill Parish extracted from the Danehill Parish Registers 1834-1900


PARISH REGISTERS FILE

Burials 1834-1900, 1900-1973 extracted from the Danehill burial register


PARISH REGISTERS FOLDER

Typescript list of burials 1834-1900 [burials 1834-1850 are copied from the Fletching Register and 1850-1900 from Danehill Parish Register]; typescript list of marriages, and a list of fathers of couples married, in Danehill Parish 1850-1900; extracts from the burial registers 1901-1950 [a few additional entries 1950-1983]; typescript copy of the baptismal, marriage and burial registers, 1901-1950


REVEREND CORNISH'S MEMOIRS

'Memoirs of All Saints Danehill, 1944-1959' by The Reverend Cornish

Series Folder Description LocationDANEHILL & CHELWOOD GATE

VICARS List of the former vicars of Danehill with some brief biographical notes


VILLAGE Brief history of Danehill; references to Danehill, Fletching and Horsted Keynes in the East Sussex Express and the East Sussex News; research on Danehill Windmill by Hylda Rawlings; Danehill Sports Club summer auction catalogue; extracts from 'Memories Of My Village' compiled by members of the East Sussex County Federation of Women's Institutes c1954; The Royal British Legion service for the Laying-up of the Old Standard and the Dedication of the New Standard; Wealden District Council, Danehill Con servation Area Designation Report, Oct 1995

DANEHILL PARISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY

ARTICLES FOR SOCIETY MAGAZINE

Manuscript copies: 'Village Life in the Nineteenth Century' Margaret Holt; 'Farming and Landowning in Victorian Danehill' Margaret Holt; 'To Talk of Many Things' overview of farms and farming in Danehill Parish, Joan Ward; 'Ruth Bird Obituary' Claire Cross; 'Unwillingly to School:Fletching School' Hylda Rawlings; 'The Poor Law and Sussex Rural Life' Leonie Davenport

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HOUSING GROUP Early meeting minutes book with list of members and record of buildings researched; short report on the work of the Housing Group, September 1977


CHURCH CENTENARY EXHIBITION 1992

Photographs of houses and inhabitants of Danehill village centre, Church Lane, Woodgate and Danehurst [St Raphaels]; original plan of village school; photographs and notes on the parish in WW II; local maps; original posters including poster advertising a whist drive at Woodgate to raise funds for a planned memorial hall, 1919


DANEHILL VILLAGE IN THE WAKE OF THE GREAT STORM

Album of photographs, with captions, taken in and around Danehill and Chelwood Gate after the 1987 storm by local amateur photographers and collated by Hylda and James Rawlings

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EXHIBITIONS Papers relating to society exhibitions: '1898 Exhibition' to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the formation of the civil parish of Danehill, October 1973; advertising leaflet and photograph of part of the display of old agricultural and domestic implements, dolls, maps, records and photographs of Danehill village, 1984; exhibition at Sheffield Park in August 1991 including press cuttings,

Series Folder Description Locationphotographs of members of the Sheffield family


MAPS AND RECORDS GROUP

Files containing information on tenements in the Danehill-Fletching locality; short report on the work of the group, September 1977


PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION

Photocopies of photographs and postcards of the locality including Birch Grove, Twyford, Horsted Keynes, Danehill, late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; photographs of houses in the locality and society members: Hole House rear view taken by Mr Leppard in 1983, Danehill Farm, houses at the bottom of Church Lane, North Northlands rear view, White House, Mount Noddy, Chapelwood Manor taken circa 1920 and three photographs taken in 1904 showing building work in progress Jackson's painting of Lady Harriet, Countess of Sheffield, c 1822; Vanessa Bell, nee Stephen, at Chelwood Gate working on her portrait of Lady Robert Cecil, 1906; presentation to Dame Margery Corbett-Ashby, first president of the Danehill Parish Historical Society, with Murial Henley and Phil Lucas, society members; Admiral Beamish; the Coppard family with the Crocodile pub in the background; Walter Coppard, 1910; the Reverend Jim Rex and wife, Hazel, at their leaving party, October 1997; two Canadian army officers at Chapelwood Manor c 1945; two photographs of the Isle of Thorns children's party given by the local Canadian army detachment, c 1945; Harold MacMillan and Phil Lucas taken at the Jubilee Exhibition; John Butler and scout troop planting a tree for the millenium [For photographs of the society Christmas party 1993 with Phil Lucas, Hylda Rawlings, Derek Rawlings, Margaret Holt, Penny Peerless, Ron Cook, Diana Curta, Alberta James see the Danehill Parish Society photograph album which is in the possession of Hylda Rawlings.] George Prouse, Tom Lucas, W Cottingham and ? Baxter photograph from the Sussex Express, 1958; Christopher Newnham of the British Legion receiving a gold badge photographed by the Sussex Express; Rev Mark Russell, Donald Sinden and Mr Prouse at the consecration of the Danehill Garden of Remembrance photograph from the Sussex Express, 1971; photographs donated by the family of Eleanor and John Mangold including the building and unveiling of the millenium obelisk, the Huggett brothers of Portmansford Farm, photograph of Phil Lucas, Peter Kirby and James Rawlings, the hunt on Horsted Lane, John Stevens and the 1999 Parish Council, 1999 New Year's Eve Party, Historical Society 1999 Christmas Party, 2000 Ashdown Weekend.

DANEHILL PARISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROJECTS

BLACKSMITHS AND WHEELWRIGHTS

Extract from 'An Artist In Ironwork', an article by C E Tritton from the Sussex County Magazine, Feb 1932, on George Etherton, blacksmith of Danehill; two articles by Bryan Hale, 'The Iron Industry At Horsted Keynes' and 'The Albion Iron Works, Horsted Keynes', Feb 2000; information on the Fleet Family, blacksmiths at the Shortbridge Forge, Fletching, from notes by Dr Stephen

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Series Folder Description LocationFleet; Funnell Family of Fletching from notes by Jeff Funnell; an article by P G Lucas (Phil) 'The End Of An Era' which features George Etherton, blacksmith of Danehill, and Enoch Langridge, wheelwright of Danehill; article by Derek Rawlings 'Blacksmiths and Wheelwrights'; article by Joan Ward 'The Lament Of A Sussex Ironmaster'; miscellaneous notes on local blacksmiths and wheelwrights from records held at East Sussex Record Office; lists of blacksmiths and wheelwrights in the local area mainly in the nineteenth century; notes on the Warnett Family, blacksmiths, in the eighteenth century; lists of men involved in the iron industry from the seventeenth to nineteenth century; lists of trades and industries in Horsted Keynes including iron works, blacksmiths and wheelwrights; article 'Waggons In The Weald'; 'The forger of Danehill' article by W Shawcross-Hill about the work of Peter Daymond-King


CHELWOOD COMMON

Extracts from Uckfield Rural District Council Minute Book of 1897-1898, gypsy encampments on Chelwood Common with details of the conditions of vans and tents and their inhabitants [DW/B 4/3]; copies of photographs of the common; photocopies of sketches of houses on the common from the Sheffield Sketch Books, 1845; 1963 Ordnance Survey map showing extent of Chelwood Common within the manors of Horsted Broadhurst and Sheffield; detail of Mudge map showing Chelwood Common, 1813; list of properties on Chelwood Common taken from the tithe map and apportionment, showing commons and roadside wastes,1840; notes on the gypsies on Chelwood Common late nineteenth century including births and deaths (from parish registers)

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CHELWOOD GATE Draft articles 'The Chapel on Chelwood Common', 'Streeters Rough and Beaconsfield Road on Chelwood Common', 'Chelwood Common Gentry', 'The Forest Gate'; references to entries in the Uckfield Rural District building plans register 1922-1929 [DW/A 6/5] for Chelwood Gate; extracts from the 1910 Land Survey recording Chelwood Gate properties, owners and occupiers [IRV 1]; brief notes on the church; brief history of The Sun House and its architect, Colin Lucas; auction particulars Alvaston, Holly Hall, Ripyear's Corner Farm, 1911 with maps; plan drawn by Major Beachcroft showing the division of houses between Dallyn and Ralph Lucas, 1928; conveyance of Reapyears Corner Farm and Streeters Rough lands in the will of F R Lucas with maps of the area showing woodland prior to any building and plan of the Nursery and Laundry drying ground; extracts from the manor of Horsted Broadhurst court books relating to pre-enclosure land north of Beaconsfield Road [GLY 1084; GLY 1085]

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COMMUNICATIONS Sketch map of roads and tracks in the Danehill area; notes on roads and tracks in the local area extracted from quarter session records, Sheffield Park Documents, Lancaster Documents

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DANEHILL 1897-1997

Extracts from the Danehill Parish Council Minutes Apr 1925 - Mar 1944 [P 303/1/1] and additional minutes from the first meeting in 1898 to 1986; 'Danehill, The Creation Of The Civil Parish', article from the society magazine; notes for a talk to Sussex Family History Group about the rural parish of Danehill; papers relating to the division of the parishes of Fletching and Horsted

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Series Folder Description LocationKeynes, from the archive of Lord Monk Bretton [MOB 541-543]; photocopy of Local Government Board order confirming the creation of the new civil parish of Danehill covering the same area as the ecclesiastical parish with correspondence and petitions from the Parish Councils of Danehill and Horsted Keynes requesting definition of the boundary, 1886-1888 [C/C 78/34a] [Plans showing the proposed boundary, including plans prepared by the Ordnance Survey and The Board of Agriculture, are in East Sussex Record Office]


DANEHILL IN 1600 Two sketch maps showing houses and copyhold, freehold and waste land in the Danehill area at the time of the Buckhurst terrier; notes taken from a variety of sources including baptismal, marriage and death certificates

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DANEHILL IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Draft article 'The Parish At War: Civil Defence' including a list of bombs dropped in or near the Parish of Danehill and information on the Messerschmitt Bf110 which crashed on Ashdown Forest Sep 1940; extracts from the All Saints Church Log Book kept by Reverend Kempe and Reverend Cornish, 1938-1945; extracts from the Uckfield Rural District Council Clerk's Department records including bomb incident reports, casualty forms and schedules of houses repaired [DW B/69/6 – DW B/69/17]; extracts from East Sussex Constabulary air raid incident report cards [SPA 2/21/1, SPA 2/21/4]; extracts from Uckfield Rural District Council Fire Brigade Committee minutes, 1938-1944 [DW B/15/1]; extracts from the Parish Magazine, 1938-1946; extracts from Danehill Parish Council minutes, 1935-1941 [P 303/1/1]; extracts from Uckfield Rural District Council Air Raid Precautions Committee minutes, 1936-1945 [DW B/14/1 – DW B/14/5]; extracts from the Uckfield Rural District Council Emergency Committee minutes, 1939-1942 [DW B/16/1, DW B/16/2]; extracts from East Sussex County Council Clerk's Department Air Raid Precautions Committee minutes, 1939-1941 [C C/11/71/1 – C C/11/71-4]; pages from the Mid-Sussex Times, Sep 1939, reporting 'The Great Exodus From London'; war-time memories from George Lucas, May Lucas and Phil Lucas

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DANEHILL VILLAGE CENTRE

'Danehill Village Centre: Project Study Notes' Apr 2002; notes for the 'Golden Jubilee Walk' around the village centre, 2 June 2002; notes relating to the Danehill Village Project, 1981 including maps of the village centre and short tenement histories of The Crocodile, Danehill Stores and Baptist Chapel, Danehill Cottages, Danehill Farm, The Forge, Fern Cottage, Knells, Barn, Fairhalls, Holy Trinity Chapel, Toll House, Little Danewood Hall, The White House, Spent Out and Spenders; draft articles for the magazine 'The Development of Danehill Village up to 1840' and 'He Who Would Valiant Be: The Story of the Strict Baptists of Danehill'; references to Danehill extracted from Giles Moore's diaries; part of Fletching Tithe Map 1840 showing the way to Tanyard Farm stopped up when the new road round Danehill was made in 1818; photograph of All Saints Church

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DANEHILL VILLAGE CENTRE

'Danehill Village Centre: Danehill Parish Historical Society Magazine' reprint of Vol 1 No 10 Apr 1981 and Vol 2 No 1 Apr 1982 for Project 2001/2002, Apr Meeting 2002: Project Study Notes'

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Series Folder Description LocationPROJECTS REVISED Apr 2002


EDUCATION AT LOCAL SCHOOLS 1985

DANEHILL NATIONAL/CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL List of documents relating to Danehill School deposited by East Sussex County Council Education Department with East Sussex Record Office; poem by Emma Hearsey, 11 ½ , entitled 'School'; short essay by Sam Alexander, 9 , about members of his family educated at Danehill School, 1985; photocopy of the admissions register for Danehill School showing entrants 1903-1905; part of Pearl Bannister's 1893 Danehill National School examination paper in dictation and mathematics (Pearl Bannister of Sheffield Green, born 5 Nov 1888); sketch of the front elevation of Danehill School c 1865; sketch by Horace Paul of the same school in 1984; the class of 1895 copied from a photograph loaned by Mrs C Elphick, with names on reverse; photocopy of a photograph of class group taken in 1904 with some names on reverse; photocopy of a photograph of the class of 1897, no names; photocopy of a photograph, undated and without names, taken on Empire Day; photocopy showing four photographs loaned by Mrs Sylvia Stevens and R Stevens, undated; photocopy of an undated class photograph and a 1937-1938 cricket team photograph, the latter with names on reverse, loaned by Mr D Etherton; photocopy of the 1903 invitation to the Children's Tea at Sheffield Park and of Annie Punnett's examination certificate in Religious Knowledge, July 1914, in possession of Mr D Etherton; information on the early history of Danehill School supplied to Hylda Rawlings by The National Society in 1985; extracts from the school log books and inspectors' reports, early to mid twentieth century; parts one and two of the society magazine articles by Joan Ward 'The Development of Elementary Education in a Typical Country School', 1985 [DPHSM Vol 2 No 10, Vol 2 No 11]; 'I Remember' William John Bird's reminiscences of life in the village of Danehill over thirty years, dated Sep 1948 (William Bird was headmaster of Danehill Church of England School for thirty years. He retired in 1949 and died in Jan 1960. His obituary notice from the Mid Sussex Times in included in this file.); photocopy of newspaper cutting 'Head's retirement ends 112 years of Williams' published in 1968 on the retirement of William Edwards from the headmastership of Danehill School; extracts from the minutes of the school governors meetings, 1947-1950, Rev Cornish, Vicar. TWYFORD CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL 'A School And Church Now Vanished: Twyford Church of England School' short article by Margaret Lakin

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FARMS & BARNS 1986-1987

Danehill Parish Historical Society Magazine 'Farm Buildings' Vol 3 No 1 Apr 1986 containing the following articles: 'The Model Farm At Sheffield Park' by Margaret Holt, 'The Sheffield Dove Cote' by Hylda Rawlings, 'The Village Year' by E J Knight, 'Haven Farm: The Farm and Farmstead in the 19th Century' by Kay Coutin, 'The Uses Of A Hovel', 'A Balloon Ascent That Ended In Tragedy At Horsted Keynes'; Auction Sale Catalogue for North Northlands Farm; sketch map showing Boards Croft, Hammings, Newmans, Huggetts and Sternherne, the holdings consolidated in 1827 to form Haven Farm; tracing taken from a map drawn in 1817 by William

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Series Folder Description LocationFigg of 70 acres of land known as Newmans, Hamages, Broad Croft, Huggetts and Sterrys Herne later to form Haven Farm; Danehurst and Haven Farm as shown on the 1840 Tithe Map; report and sketch of the barn at Allins Farm visited in May 1986; report and sketch of the barn at Annwood Farm visited in May 1986; report and sketch of the barn conversion, Barn Cottage, Isle of Thorns, Chelwood Gate visited in Oct 1986; report and sketch of the barn at Colin Godmans visited in Jul 1986; report and sketch of the barn at Collingford Farm, Danehill visited in Jun 1986; survey of the barn at Cumnor House School transported from Tremaines Farm, Horsted Keynes, visited in Jul 1986; report and sketch of the barn conversion, Longbarn, Chelwood Gate, visited in Jul 1986; report and sketch of the barn at Meadow Hill, Chelwood Gate, visited in June 1986; survey of the barn at Mill Lane Cottage, Mill Lane, Furners Green visited in Aug 1986; report and sketch plan of the barn at Sliders Farm, Furners Green visited in May 1986; report and sketch of the barn at Tanyard Farm, Furners Green visited in June 1986; report and sketch of the barn at Woodgate Farm, Danehill visited in Jul 1986; completed survey sheet for the SPAB Domesday Survey of Barns for Northlands Barn, Sheffield Park with plan and sketches; photocopy of a sketch of Portmansford Farm from the Sheffield Park sketch books, 1843 [SPK *]; description and plan of Lord Sheffield's Model Farm from Arthur Young's 'Survey of the Agriculture in Sussex'; chart recording details of barns surveyed (chart kept with large maps) (see also slides of barns)


FRESHFIELD LANE [See also the Freshfield Lane and Ketches Lane folder.] Extracts from the Glynde Court Books relating to both freehold and copyhold tenements in Freshfield Lane, seventeenth to the nineteenth century, including Coulstocks Pitts, Primrose Cottage and Downs View Cottage, Garden Cottage and April Cottage, Step Cottage [GLY 1081, GLY 1083, GLY 1084, GLY 1085, GLY 1086]

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FURNERS GREEN 1978-79

[See also the short housing report folder for Furners Green.] Copy of the special project issue of the magazine, April 1979; 'A Brief History of Furners Green' a short article by Hylda and James Rawlings; drawing of Portmansford Farm dated 1843 from the collection of Sheffield Park sketch books held at East Sussex Record Office [A2714]; epitome of title for Broadwater Pit Cottage and four acres, Three Gables alias Sterresherne Farm House alias the Corner House, 1497-1904; information extracted from two abstracts of title, the elder dated 1876, relating to Chandlers [original in the society's archive]; notes on Sterresherne and Little Portmansford from a variety of sources; translation of a deed relating to Heghefeld near Sterresherne in Fletching, 1436 [Mrs Hardy's Deeds]; translation of a deed relating to Sterresherne in Fletching, 1497 [Mrs Hardy's Deeds]; translation of a deed relating to property in Lewes and Sterresherne in Fletching, 1504 [Mrs Hardy's Deeds]; translation of further deeds relating to Sterresherne in Fletching, 1534,1535, 1548 [Mrs Hardy's Deeds]; translation of a deed relating to Sterresherne and the Great Southfield in Fletching, 1562 [Mrs Hardy's Deeds]; translation of an abstract of title for a messuage, Smiths Forge and farm lands, tenements and appurtenances known as Sterresherne in Fletching, 1760 [Mrs Hardy's Deeds];

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Series Folder Description LocationDANEHILL PARISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROJECTS

HEDGEROW SURVEY

In 1982 members of the DPHS began a hedgerow survey in the areas of Woodgate and Portmansford Farms. This folder includes: the completed forms for Woodgate, a record of the number of species growing within each hedge; map showing the hedges surveyed at Portmansford Farm with a draft report on dorse and additional sheet with notes

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INNS Miscellaneous notes from a variety of sources on the following inns/public houses: The Crown, Horsted Keynes; The Green Man, Horsted Keynes; The Red Lion, Chelwood Gate; Stone Quarry, Chelwood Gate; Griffin Inn, Fletching; Coach and Horses, Chelwood Common; Crocodile, Danehill; The Royal Oak, Danehill; Greyhound, Chelwood Common; Black Dog, Danehill; Chequers, Maresfield; Chequers, Sheffield Green; The White Horse in Fletching; The Flying Engine, Fletching; The Lamb/Piltdown Man; The Peacock, Piltdown; Plough Inn, Splaynes Green; The Sloop. Articles: 'The Star', Piltdown. 'Tamplin The Brewery', by Phil Lucas, 'Panem Et Circenses', by Joan Ward, 'Music And Dancing In The Public Houses And Village Life From Late Nineteenth To Mid Twentieth Century'

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PERRYMANS HILL Extracts from the wills of Abraham Maynard, Jan 1699 [A44/114 XA26/27and Robert Maynard [A45*] relating to houses and property owned by the Maynard/Mainard/Mainwood families of Fletching, Danehill and Horsted Keynes including Holelands, Perrymans, Wildnutts, Bryans Wood, lands in Plumpton, Oddens, Freshfield Mill; list of the Manor of Horsted Broadhurst quitrents in Fletching Parish, 1707 [SAS HB 490]; list of the Manor of Horsted Broadhurst quitrents in Fletching Parish, 1757 [GLY 1093]; descent of Allin's Farm alias Birchetts, late Pages, before Maynards, with a barn and six acres, formerly a parcel of copyhold land known as Willmots, in Horsted Broadhurst Manor and in the parish of Fletching from 1692 to 1860, 1855 to 1948 taken from a variety of sources (ESRO references given including ACC 8536/1 /2 /3 /4); descent of customary land Birchetts/Birchites/Le Birchett, six acres with barn in Fletching, 1604-1827 taken from Glynde rentals and court books and other sources (ESRO references given); descent of the freehold property Greenfields, parcel of Willmots, 1648-1860, taken from Glynde court books and rentals and other sources (ESRO references given); descent of a further parcel of Willmots (adjoining Chelwood Farm to the West), 1557-1865, taken from a variety of sources (ESRO references given); descent of the freehold property Perrymans, 1700-1865, taken from a variety of sources (ESRO references given); extracts from Ruth Bird's transcription of Horsted Broadhurst Manor Court Rolls which mention a croft called Lokkscrofte/Lowscrofte, lands called Dennat/Dennotts and an unfree croft called Bryanswood/Bryans Wood lying near Chelworth, parcel of land called Egont, Perrymans Croft

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SLIDERS LANE An account of work on Sliders Farm, 1785 [SPK/E/13/2-4]; extracts from Sheffield Rental 1558-1560 relating to land around Sliders Lane [XA4/1*]; extracts from the Buckhurst Terrier 1597-1598 relating to land around Sliders Lane; tracing of the 1817 Figg Map of 70 acres of land known as Newmans, Hamages, Broad Croft, Huggetts and Sterrys Herne [*]; 'The Cart Before The Horse'

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Series Folder Description Locationarticle by Joan Ward tracing the development of land around Heaven Farm (with maps); deeds relating to Sliders Farm, mainly eighteenth century [*]; epitome of title of Sliders Farm 1524-1882 and other associated properties including Three Cornered Croft, Mustards, Shelves and Estridges; notes relating to Sliders Farm and nearby property including a deed of 1785 [SPK/E1/4*]; notes relating to the Skinner Family, including births, deaths and marriages taken from Fletching and Maresfield Parish Registers c1550-1798 [*]


TANYARD FARM 1983 PROJECT

'Tanyard Farm, The Land And Its History' article by Derek Rawlings; Tanyard Farm from the 1851, 1861, 1871 census returns; the tannery at Tanyard Farm, notes made by Lawrence and Patricia Stevens of Eastbourne c2000; brief description of Tanyard Farmhouse and barn

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VICTORIAN FARMING

List of fruit farmers on Chelwood Common early twentieth century, list of occupiers of properties and a list of farms and small holdings in the local area including Chelwood Common probably taken from the Tithe Apportionment Schedule

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DANEHILL PARISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY SHORT HOUSING REPORTS

CHELWOOD COMMON AND CHELWOOD GATE

Notes on houses and land on Chelwood Common, mainly from Horsted Broadhurst and Sheffield Manor Court Books, including High Mead/Meriden/Whitepost/Fairview, Agin Cop, Jewells/Willowlands, Aggons, Rose Cottage and Stone Barn Cottage in Boxes Lane, Leggs and Sedges in Boxes Lane, Thompsett Land, The Greyhound, Lilac Cottage, Assenders Tenements, The Red Lion/The White House, Stumble Hole, Hill Cottage, Walders Store, Chelwood Beacon, The Ridge, Meadow Cottage; 'A Trip Down Politicians' Alley': brief history of houses on the edge of Ashdown Forest written by Michael Longley; Eva Turner's memories of The Whim and other properties around Chelwood Gate and Streeters Rough including Wayside Cottage Stores; original sales particulars for properties on Chelwood Common and in Chelwood Gate from the auctioneers, Turner, Rudge & Turner including sale particulars for the cottage next to the Post Office in Chelwood Gate, Lauriston, Yew Tree Farm and Quarry Farm; The Old Greyhound, plots of building or accommodation land, meadow land and Fair View, Claypits Farm and Cottage, White House Farm, Springhill Cottage; plan of the Square Hall Estate, 1841; Little Bridge Cottage, Burnt House Farm, Jethro Turner's Cottage/Folly Cottage, Frances/Brook House, Catts Tayles/Stumblehold Land, Folly Farm


COLLECTION A Burnt House Farm; Little Bridge Cottage; Jethro Turner's Cottage; Little Bridge House; Carter's Cottage; Pepper Alley Cottages; Chelwood Clump; All Saints Parish Church; Cherry Tree Cottage & Little Dene; Black Dog Cottage; Danewood; Danewood Cottage; Mount Noddy; Coach & Horses Public House; Christopher Fields; Portmansford Farm; Oak Farm; Richard Bertram House; Penfold; Sliders Farm; Home Farm; North Northlands; St Raphaels/Danehurst; Sheffield Park House

DANEHILL PARISH COLLECTION B The south part of the Northlands; North Northlands; Northlands Farm; Danewood and the Marle

Series Folder Description LocationHISTORICAL SOCIETY SHORT HOUSING REPORTS

Pits; Christophers Croft; Christophers Field; Sterresherne & Haven Farm; Three Gables & the Three-Cornered Field; Three-Cornered Croft; Portmansford Farm; Colin Godmans; Cold Godmans; Frances/Brook House; North Northlands Farm/Christophers Farm


DANEHILL CENTRE AND LONDON/LEWES ROAD

Forest Farm (report by Kay Coutin and Margaret Goodare, Wealden Buildings Study Group); The Old Vicarage; folder entitiled 'Miscellaneous Danehill' containing notes on Broadcroft, Barelands and other tenements


DANEHILL, CHURCH LANE

North Northlands, Northlands Farm, Mount Noddy, Old Moaps Farm, Christopher Fields, Black Dog Cottage, Penfold and neighbouring Victorian Cottages, Danewood Cottage & The Marle Pits


FLETCHING Pound Farm/Beards/Miles Land/Bartletts/The Simbletts; Joyesses/Josepescroft; Stomphouse/Elm Cottage (Fletching Street); North Hall; Mays (Fletching Street); Downstreet Farm; Daleham/Dale-Hamme; Griffin Inn/The Sign of the White Lion (Fletching Street); Clinton Lodge (Fletching Street); Atheralls (Manor of Barkham); Normans Croft (Manor of Tarring Camois) (Fletching Street); The Cottage/The White House/The White Horse (Fletching Street); Clapwater; Church Farm (Fletching Street); Elliots and Flitridge; The New Vicarage (Fletching Street); brief note regarding sale of Sheffield Arms with two farms and opportunity to purchase one of the wharfs on the New Navigation [no date]; 'Fletching Houses' article by Margaret Holt published in the Danehill Parish Historical Society; photostat copies showing Mawles Land and Lodge Farm, part of a survey of the Estate of John Baker Holroyd Esq by Bernard Scale 1774 with field names and acreages and names of adjacent owners or farms [AMS 4607,4610]; Sheffield Mill


FRESHFIELD LANE AND KETCHES LANE

Wild Boars with two photographs (report from Surrey Domestic Buildings Research Group); Ketches; Blacklands/Old Forge Cottage; Latchetts/Latchetts and Sands; Kidborough Farm (report from Dr A F Hughes); Freshfield (report from Dr A F Hughes)


FURNERS GREEN Sterrresherne/Danehurst/Haven Farm, Sterresherne/Broadwater Cottage/Three Gables/Post Office, Great Portmansford Farm, Little Portmansford Farm/Three-Cornered Croft; Sheffield Mill Colin Godmans; Frances alias Brook House; Cold Godmans; Pound Farm alias Beards, Miles Land, Bartletts, The Simbletts in the Parish of Fletching; Springfield Cottage, alias Botches; also included in this file is a short article on Mrs Jack Newnham based on a cutting from the Kent and Sussex Courier of 1936 Little Bridge Cottage, Jethro Turners Cottage, Burnt House Farm [Chelwood Common]

Series Folder Description LocationFLETCHING ADVOWSON Transcriptions of deeds relating to the advowson of Fletching church; a variety of sources

FLETCHING BARNS Thumbnail sketch maps of named farms in Fletching Parish showing the farm house and the adjacent farm buildings

FLETCHING CHANCEL REPAIRS Photocopy of the apportionment schedule for the rent charge for chancel repairs SS Mary and Andrew, Fletching [*]

FLETCHING DEEDS Transcriptions and calendars of deeds relating to property in the parish of Fletching. Deeds from the archive of the Newnham and Shelley families of Maresfield Park, 14th cent - 17th cent [SAS/AB/1165-1176]; deeds purchased from Phillips, 14th cent - 16th cent [AMS 5789/34-36]; deeds from the archive of the Maryon-Wilson family properties in Fletching, 13th cent - 17th cent [AMS 5790/1-53], [AMS 2548-2571], [AMS 2713-2717]; [AMS 2767-2775]; Awcock Family deeds relating to Fletching, 1444-1589; additional deeds, some still privately owned, for properties in Fletching; deeds deposited by Messrs Mead and Co, 13th cent - 17th cent [SAS/LM 135, 137, 139]; various deeds from East and West Sussex, 17th cent - 18th cent [SAS/C 15, 757-774]; various deeds for Sterresherne, Three Gables, Broadwater Cottages, Furners Green in Fletching, some from the Hardy collection, 14th cent - 20th cent

FLETCHING HISTORY 'Fletching An Ancient Settlement' by Colin Hobbs; miscellaneous references to the Bardolf Family holdings in Fletching mainly from Close Roll entries [NB In his article 'The Manor Of Tarring Peverell In Fletching' Colin Hobbs suggests that prior to 1275, when a borough held by John Peverel was mentioned, the manors of Tarring Camois, Tarring Peverell and Nether Hall/Netherhall were known jointly as the Manor of Fletching]; Fletching entry from Horsfield's 'History of Sussex'; extract from Lower's History of Sussex on the early history of Fletching; calendar of Chancery documents containing the word Fletching held in The National Archives [TNA References supplied]; items of Fletching news copied from 'The Sussex Express' and 'Sussex Life'; ramblers guide for a Fletching walk. 'A brief history of the Parish and Church' booklet first published Dec 1963; 'A Description of the Parish Church' ; extracts from SAC on the history of Fletching Parish; photocopy of photograph of Fletching Pump House; photocopy of a local newspaper article 'Drain poser for village'; copy of a magazine article by Vida Herbison

Series Folder Description Location'Fletching steeped in its own legends …'

FLETCHING LAND TAX, Manuscript copy of nineteenth century land taxes for Fletching which give the name of the property, the owner/occupier and amount of tax due [1833-1859]

FLETCHING LEWES ARCHDEACONRY DEPOSITION BOOKS

Depositions relating to Fletching, 1587-1594. Photostat copy and transcription of the deposition made by Walter Hider regarding the administration of the goods of John Emery, late vicar of Fletching, Sep 1581 - May 1584 [West Sussex Record Office: Ep/II/5/2 now on microfilm at East Sussex Record Office: XA/23/1]; photostat copy and transcription of depositions made by Thomas Warren of Fletching, Thomas Kidd of Fletching, Margaret Allen of Fletching, John Maynerd, William Maynarde of Kyrford, Thomas Warde of Uckfield regarding Fletching Mill tithes and Henry Banbrucke, Vicar of Fletching, and the deposition of Thomas Bridger regarding the estate of Thomas Gater of Fletching Dec 1587 - Jan 1594 [WSRO Ep/II/5/5, ESRO XA/23/2]; photostat copy and transcription of the depositions made by Richard Awcock of Fletching, Robert Wood of Fletching, Robert Henney/Venney of Maresfield, Thomas Awcock, William Price, regarding the testament of John Awcock of Fletching Oct 1606 - May 1611 [WSRO Ep/II/5/8, ESRO XA/23/3); photostat copy and transcription of the depositions made by Thomasina Bartley of Lindfield, Nicholas Sheppard and Mary his wife of Fletching, Richard Aforde of Barcombe, Thomas Fytchet of Fletching, Agnes Depelock of Alciston, Elizabeth Maynarde of Rudgwick, Thomas Earle of Barcombe regarding the legacy of Richard Gibson and photostat copy and transcription of the depositions of Agnes Topsell of Fletching, Nicholas Dorman of Rotherfield, Thomas Muddle of Maresfield regarding the will of Barnaby Stone May 1611 – Jun 1613 [WSRO Ep/II/5/9, ESRO XA/23/3]; photostat copy and transcription of the depositions made by Richard Payne of Fletching, John Longley of Horsted Keynes, William Baxshell of Lindfield regarding the will of Edward Jenner Jul 1616 - May 1621 [WSRO Ep/II/5/11, ESRO XA/23/3).

FLETCHING PARISH REGISTERS Transcriptions of the Fletching Parish Registers [PAR 329] Baptisms 1554-1653 [PAR 329/1/1/1]; baptisms 1653-1690 [PAR 329/1/1/2; baptisms 1690-1795 [PAR 329/1/1/3]; marriages 1653-1709 [PAR 329* ]; burials 1653-1690 [PAR 329*]; baptisms 1813-1839 [PAR 329*]; baptisms, marriages and burials 1824

FLETCHING POOR BOOK Transcription of the Fletching Poor Rate Book 1740-1868 [*]; list of Fletching church wardens and overseers of the poor taken from the Poor Rate Book, 1721-1777 [SPK/P*]

FLETCHING RATES Transcriptions of various rates: Window and House Tax Assessment 1747 with an introduction by Roger Davey , 1789 Rate Assessment for Danehill Sheffield, 1811 Fletching Poor Rate [SRL 22/16]

Series Folder Description LocationFLETCHING RECTORS AND

CURATESList of rectors and curates of Fletching Church, 1269-1686

FLETCHING WILLS Transcription of the will of Edward Phyllypp of Lewes, 1555 [AMS 5339]; transcription of the will of John Coulstocke, the elder, of Fletching, 1666; extract from the will of John Rootes of Fletching, yeoman, 1672, [PBT 1/1/42/163]; extract from the will of William Roots of Fletching, 1686, [PBT 1/1/37/167]; transcription of the will of Thomas Roots of Fletching, 1690, [PBT 1/1/42/32B]; will of John Roots of Fletching, 1696; transcription of the will of Nicholas Chatfield of Fletching, tailor, 1681, [PBT 1/1/35/363C]; transcription of the will of Mary Comber of Fletching, 1727, [PBT 1/1/52/344]; extracts from the will of George Langridge of Fletching, wheelwright, 1761, [PBT/1/1/60/355]; extracts from the will of Dorothy Drewry of Fletching, 1745 [PBT/1/1/58/253]; probate copy of the will (17 Jan 1728) and codicil (22 Jan 1729) of David Vaughan, vicar of Fletching [SRL 28/8]; probate copy of the will (27 Mar 1709) and codicil (27 Jan 1709) of Philadelphia Smith of St Margaret Westminster, Middlesex, widow [SRL/28/7]; probate copy of the will (24 Aug 1642) of Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, Baron of Effingham [SRL 28/4]; probate copy of the will (13 Feb 1772) of John Argles the elder of Aylesbury, Bucks, surgeon, messuage and 130a called Searles in Fletching, occupied by William Wood, to son John Argles, to whom he leaves his books and surgical instruments [SRL/28/10]; probate copy of the will (24 Oct 1640) of John Wilson of Sheffield in Fletching [SRL 28/2]; probate copy of the will (16 May 1605) and codicil (8 Nov 1618) of Charity Howard of Sheffield in Fletching [SRL 28/1]; extracts from additional Fletching wills. Inventory made after the death of Dedicot Roots, gent, October 1716

FLETCHING WORK HOUSE Depositions from Fletching residents relating to the assault on Mrs Croft, matron of the Poor House, Splaynes Green, Fletching nineteenth century [SPK Box 15/7] photostat copy and transcription of a description of the parochial management of Fletching [which included Danehill and Chelwood Gate] in 1821 by an unknown author [SPK/P12]; photocopy of papers relating to the establishment of a workhouse at Fletching including rules and regulations and the daily diet of the inhabitants [SPK/P12]; photocopy of the 1818 inventory of the goods and chattels of Fletching Workhouse at Splaynes Green [SPK/P13]; 'Lord Sheffield's Last Stand' an article on the dispute over the implementation of the Poor Law in Sheffield written by Hylda Rawlings; transcriptions of further documents from the Sheffield Park Papers relating to the Fletching workhouse circa 1812-1816 including letters to Lord Sheffield [SPK/P6] and various disputes [SPK/P11]; photostat copy of a valuation of the rateable property in Fletching for the assessment of the poor rate by William Turner of East Grinstead and Charles Marchant of Hartfield 1841 [Despite the heading, the document is merely a transcript of the tithe apportionment with no valuations included] [SRL 23/5]

FLETCHING FLETCHING STREET

Tenement histories of the properties in Fletching village street compiled by James Rawlings from various sources

Series Folder Description LocationTENEMENT HISTORIES

FLETCHING TITHE 1840 Photostat copy of, and typed extracts from,the tithe schedule for Fletching 1840 [TDE 145]; pencil sketch taken from the Fletching Tithe Map showing buildings on Sheffield Green (Castlemans Common)

FLETCHING VOTING LIST From the archive of the Baker Holroyd family of Fletching manuscript copy of a Fletching voting list c1815 [SPK/P 5]

HORSTED KEYNES BRIEFS IN HORSTED KEYNES PARISH

Photocopied pages from the Horsted Keynes Vestry Book, now in West Sussex Record Office, recording briefs ie charitable giving, 1706-1708; transcription of entries in the parish registers recording briefs 1656-1705

HORSTED KEYNES CHURCH 'Archbishop Robert Leighton 1611-1684' by Ronald Tibble 1992; church guide revised 1970;translations of twelfth century grants made by members of the De Cahaignes family to Lewes Priory relating to the church of Horsted Keynes [Sussex Record Society Volume 30]; notes on the advowson of the church; list of rectors c1170-1895; list of the parish records deposited in the West Sussex Record Office

HORSTED KEYNES PARISH REGISTERS Transcript of Horsted Keynes baptisms, marriages and burials registers, 1638-1837, with index transcribed by Michael J Burchall 1973; burials 1837-1900 transcribed by D J H Clifford, 1994

HORSTED KEYNES TITHE SCHEDULE Transcription of the schedule to accompany the tithe map for the Parish of Horsted Keynes 1839 [RS 1985]

HORSTED KEYNES VILLAGE Register of Horsted Keynes electors, 1934; 'Cricket Match on Skates, Horsted Keynes versus Cuckfield' , offprint from The Mid Sussex Times 1891; 'The Howling Boys of Horsted Keynes' offprint Sussex Life, January 1977; notes on Horsted Keynes taken from 'History of Sussex'; notes on Town Place; cuttings from The Sussex Express; inventory of the effects of Mr Abraham Jackson 24 Jun 1781; notice of changes to the village shops on the retirement of Clare and David Wilson and Tony Maynard, butcher, Feb 2000 [WSRO PAR 384]; advertising leaflet with photograph for Broadhurst Manor retreat for the elderly c1985

Series Folder Description LocationLOCAL ADMINISTRATION

CENSUS RETURNS Extracts from the 1841 to 1901 census returns for Fletching, Horsted Keynes and Danehill; 1851 census return for Buxted and Maresfield; folder with miscellaneous census returns and population statistics.

LOCAL ADMINISTRATION

HUNDRED COURTS From the archive of Adams and Remers, Lewes solicitors, Hundred Courts of Dorset Hundreds,1587-1591 [ACC 3597/2] and Hundred Courts of Dorset Hundreds, 1576-1582 [ACC 3597/1]; View of Frankpledge Rushmonden Hundred 1632-1633 [ACC 3597/4]; from the archive of the Ashburnham Family, copy of the Survey of the Boundaries of the Hundreds of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1579 c1800 [ASH 1171A]; Hundred of Danehill Horsted minutes and lists of inhabitants [the lists of inhabitants are often called ragments] 1731-1750 [GLY 1091]

MANOR OF BARKHAM BARKHAM COURT ROLLS AND RENTALS

This series consists of extracts from Barkham Court Rolls 1560-1579 and extracts and fully transcribed rentals of the Manor of Barkham. Rental 1516 [SRL 12/5]; Rental c1520 [SRL 12/6]; Rental c1530 [SRL 12/7]; Rental c1530 [SRL 12/8]; Rental 1532 [SRL 12/9]; Rental c1540 [SRL 12/12]; Rental c1540-1550 [SRL 12/15]; Rental c 1550 [SRL 12/13]; Rental c1555 [SRL 12/14]; Rental 1571 [SRL 12/17]; Rental 1584 [SRL 12/18]; Rental 1585 [SRL 12/19]; Rental 1585 [SRL 12/20]; Rental 1590 [SRL 12/21]; Rental c1600 [SRL 12/21]; Rental 1687 [SRL 12/24]; Rental copyhold tenements, owners and occupiers c1580 [SRL 12/34]; Rental 1714 [SRL 12/25]; Survey and Rental 1723, with references to earlier courts from 1560, a list of customs of the manor, annotations to 1753 [SRL 12/33]; Rental of Barkham and Netherhall 1760 [SRL 19/2]; Rental 1768 [SRL 19/2]; Rental 1782 [SRL 12/27]; Rental 1782 [SRL 12/28]; Rental 1792-1794 [SRL 12/30]; Rental 1814 [SRL 12/31]; Rental 1866 [SRL 12/32]. Also in this folder is a tenement analysis ie a list containing the name of each tenement within Barkham Manor with the name of the occupier and a photostat copy of a Barkham rental from c1730, 1782, 1798

MANOR OF BARKHAM BARKHAM DEEDS Transcript of lease for 41 years 28 Jun 1571, William Sandys of Hampshire to Edward Hungerford of London [SRL 1/1/1]; transcript of conveyance 27 May 1584, William Sandys to Richard Leche of Sheffield in Fletching, of the Manor of Barkham in Fletching, Maresfield, Newick and Isfield [AMS 2709]; transcript of counterpart lease for 18 years from 29 Sep 1592, Richard Leche of Sheffield to William Dopp of Newick, yeoman [SRL 1/1/5]; transcript of settlement 8 Aug 1595, Richard Leche of Sheffield to his servants John Wilson and Richard Synderford, in trust for Richard Leche and his heirs in tail, remainder in trust for his wife Charity and her heirs [SRL 1/1/6]; transcript of feoffment 23 Sep 1595, Richard Leche of Sheffield in Fletching to John Wilson and Richard Synderford premises as in SRL 1/1/6, excepting land in Plumpton and Frant [SRL 1/1/10]; list of further deeds relating to Barkham in the Archive of the Maryon-Wilson Family of Searles 1558-1877

MANOR OF BARKHAM BARKHAM Barkham was one of a series of Anglo-Saxon estates along the Upper Ouse Valley. Domesday

Series Folder Description LocationHISTORY Book records it as Bercheham, having three virgates. Warner held it of the Count of Mortain, Lord

of the Rape of Pevensey, and before the conquest it had been held by Earl Godwin, father of King Harold. The manorial records date back to the fifteen hundreds: 1516 for the rentals and 1560 for the courts. The rentals are better preserved than the court rolls some of which are missing whilst those of 1731-1795 are fragmentary and 1799-1861 unfit for viewing [2015]. The manors of Barkham, Tarring Camois and Nether Hall/Netherhall came into the ownership of the Maryon-Wilson Family of Searles and their histories often run together. This folder contains: a descent of the manor from Domesday to the nineteenth century; calendars of business letters relating to the Barkham Manor lands of the Maryon-Wilson Family of Searles [AMS 2691; AMS 2694]; observations on the boundaries between the manors of Barkham and Nether Hall/Netherhall [AMS 2697]; extracts from Manor of Tarring Camois Rental 1794 [AMS 2685]; extracts from Manor of Barkham Court Rolls Feb 1561 – Apr 1565, Aug 1578 – Sep 1582 [SRL 12/1]; extracts from the 1814 Rental of Barkham, Nether Hall/Netherhall and Tarring Camois [SRL 12/31]

MANOR OF BUCKHURST

BUCKHURST RENTALS AND COURT BOOKS

Extracts from rentals and court books relating to Buckhurst Manor property in Fletching, from the archive of Adams and Remers, solicitors [ADA 37 – ADA 52]; extracts from the Buckhurst Terrier as printed in Sussex Record Society Vol 39 relating to Buckhurst lands in Fletching and Maresfield Parishes, Manor of Imberhorne; card index of Buckhurst tenants

MANOR OF COURTLANDS ALIAS NEWNHAMS

COURTLANDS ALIAS NEWNHAMS MAPS

Two sketch maps showing lands belonging to the manor, traced by Colin Hobbs [source unknown]


COURTLANDS ALIAS NEWNHAMS DEEDS

Extracts from deeds recording changes of ownership 1588 onwards. Bargain and sale 1588 [SAS G/35/20]; deed of declaration 1588 [SAS G/35/21]; indenture 1606 [SAS AB/1388]; bargain and sale 1608 [SAS AB/1388]; feoffment by deed poll 1642 [SAS AB/1391]; settlement and covenant to levy a fine following an award and arbitration 1664 [SAS AB/1392]; mortgage 1666 [SAS AB/1394]; settlement 1688 [SAS AB/513]; settlement 1744


COURTLANDS ALIAS NEWNHAMS RENTALS

Transcript of 1761 Rental [SAS AB/1412]; list of rents received 1731-1756 recorded in 'a parchment-covered book in the desk in the Little Parlour' [SAS AB/1413]

MANOR OF DUDDLESWELL

DUDDLESWELL RENTALS

[From the archive of Adams and Remers of Lewes, solicitors, De La Warr Manors.] Extracts from 1665 Rental [ADA 96], 1826 Rental updated to 1855 [ADA 97], 1826 Rental updated to 1834 [ADA 98], 1856 Rental with updates [ADA 99], 1885 Rental updated to 1935 [ADA 100]. Also in this file Customs of the Manor of Duddleswell 1825 [ADA 98] and extracts from an Elizabethan extent of Ashdown Forest [ADA 95] See SAC Vol 23 for a full transcription of the 1650 Rental of

Series Folder Description LocationDuddleswell

MANOR OF HORSTED BROADHURST

HORSTED BROADHURST COURT BOOKS & ROLLS

Extracts from Manor of Horsted Broadhurst court book with 1714 rental 1623-1726 [GLY 1081]; extracts from Manor of Horsted Broadhurst court book 1704-1780 [GLY 1082]; extracts from Manor of Horsted Broadhurst court book 1781-1818 [GLY 1083]; extracts from Manor of Horsted Broadhurst court book 1818-1850 [GLY 1084]; extracts from Manor of Horsted Broadhurst court book 1851-1872 [GLY 1085]; transcriptions of Manor of Horsted Broadhurst court books 1873-1921 [GLY 1086] and 1921-1928 [GLY 1087]; descents of the Horsted Broadhurst tenements Kidborough, Stoaches, Coulstocks Pitts/Cowstocks/Timber Cottage, Latchetts and Sands and Holelands compiled using information from the above court rolls and rentals; photostat copy of index of all the surrenders, admissions and other acts of the manor court 1708-1731, 1732 [GLY 1088]


HORSTED BROADHURST ENCLOSURE AWARD

Extracts from the 1864 enclosure award [QDD/6/E13]


HORSTED BROADHURST HISTORY

Notes on the history of the manor taken from a variety of sources


HORSTED BROADHURST RENTALS

Photostat copy of rental of manorial tenants in Horsted Keynes, Fletching and East Grinstead 30 Sep 1751 [GLY 1093]; transcription of the Manor of Horsted Broadhurst rental Oct 1755 [ACC 8439/13/1]

MANOR OF MARESFIELD

MARESFIELD RENTALS, SURVEYS & VALUATIONS

Extracts relating to Maresfield from a general survey of all Gage manors in Sussex 1625 [SAS/G 68/9/4]; extracts from a valuation of the demesne of the Manor of Maresfield 1545 [SAS/G 6/61]; extracts from 1545/46 Rental with alphabetical list of land holdings in Mark Street Nutley and Birch Grove [SAS/G 6/57]; extracts from c1545 Rental [SAS/G 6/60]; extracts for Nutley only from 1618 Rental [SAS/G 6/59]; extracts from 1619 Rental [SAS/G 6/55]; extracts from 1746 Rental [SAS/G 17/24]; extracts from c1758 Rental [SAS/G 17/28]; extracts from 1758 Rental [SAS/G 17/17]; extracts from 1785 Rental [SAS/G 17/25]; extracts from 1790 Rental [SAS/G 17/26]; extracts from 1803 Rental including customs of the manor [SAS/G 17/27]; extracts from 1835 Rental updated to 1857 [SAS/G 68/9/8]

Series Folder Description LocationMANOR OF MARESFIELD

MARESFIELD TITHE SCHEDULE

List of tenements in Maresfield Parish with owners and tenement reference number from tithe map.

MANOR OF NETHERHALL

NETHERHALL COURT ROLLS

First court of Nicholas Carew 13 Jul 1537 and court of 8 Dec 1537 (full translation) [SRL 11/1]

MANOR OF NETHERHALL

NETHERHALL DEEDS

List of deeds relating to demesne and tenantry land of the Manor of Nether Hall/Netherhall 1559-1808, from the archive of Maryon-Wilson family of Searles [ESRO References supplied]. Translation of a lease for 21 years, Francis Carew of Beddington, Surrey, esq, to Thomas Hills and John Cannon of Fletching, yeomen, site of the manor of Nether Hall/Netherhall together with demesne lands called Allcote Woode, Allcotefelde and Allcote Meade and lands called Millwode, Myllande and West Meade (140a) 12 Apr 1539 [SRL 1/1/2]. Transcription of a conveyance, Francis Carew of Beddington, Surrey, kt, to Richard Leche of Sheffield, esq, Manor of Nether Hall/Netherhall and lands in Fletching 19 May 1587 [AMS 2710]. [The East Sussex holdings of the Carew family largely derive from the marriage, in or before 1468, of James Carew kt with Eleanor, the widow of Thomas Etchingham, one of the four daughters of Thomas Hoo, Lord Hoo and Hastings. The Carew archive fell into the hands of Sir Thomas Phillipps and has been dispersed. Major sections are held by Surrey Record Office and by the British Library. Other elements, concerning manors which were subsequently purchased by the Pelham family, are among that archive at the British Library. Another major group was purchased by the British Museum from Mrs Waugh, formerly Mrs Carew, in 1874. Copies of some of these documents and calendars of others have been brought together as AMS 6367]

MANOR OF NETHERHALL

NETHERHALL HISTORY

Notes made by Colin Hobbs on the descent of the tenement of Nether Hall/Netherhall in the Parish of Fletching taken from original documents held at East Sussex Record Office; additional notes on the descent of the manor taken from a variety of sources; 1285-1883

MANOR OF NETHERHALL

NETHERHALL RENTALS

Entries for Nether Hall/Netherhall from a Tarring Camois Rental 1739 [SRL 10/14]; entries for Nether Hall/Netherhall from a Rental of Barkham, Netherhall and Tarring Camois 12 Oct 1782 [SRL 12/27]; entries for Nether Hall/Netherhall from a Rental of Barkham, Netherhall and Tarring Camois 1814 [SRL 12/31]; entries for Nether Hall/Netherhall from a Rental of Barkham, Netherhall and Tarring Camois 1866 [SRL 12/32]

MANOR OF SHEFFIELD BUCKHURST TERRIER

A survey of the manors, lands and tenements belonging to the Barony of Buckhurst 1597-1598 [DLW 392A ] Photocopy of entries for the manors of Sheffield and Tarring Peverell; card index of

Series Folder Description Locationland holders and tenements; paper list of land holders and tenements; copy of the title-page of the Buckhurst Terrier annotated to disprove the assertion that the manor of Sheffield was part of the Barony of Buckhurst [AMS 6552/1]

MANOR OF SOUTHEASE AND HEIGHTON

SOUTHEASE AND HEIGHTON RENTALS, COURT BOOKS AND DEEDS

Tenement history of Goldstrow Farm in Fletching created from manorial rentals and court books 1623-1822 in the archive of the Hay and Christie families of Glynde [GBN/10/4-11]

MANOR OF TARRING CAMOIS

TARRING CAMOIS COURT BOOKS/ROLLS

Translations of court rolls, courts baron and views of frankpledge 1366-1378 [SRL 10/1]; translations of court rolls, courts baron and views of frankpledge 1481-1566 [SRL 10/2]; translations of court rolls, courts baron and views of frankpledge 1568-1570 [SRL 10/3]; translations of court rolls, courts baron and views of frankpledge1583-1600 [SRL 10/4]; entries from the court rolls of the manor of Tarring Camois selected by the then steward, Richard Andrew Turner, to illustrate its relationship with the manor of Sheffield 1524-1745 [SRL 10/19]; court roll, court baron 9 Sep 1529 and view of frankpledge 8 Oct 1529 [SRL 10/20]; extracts from Tarring Camois court rolls 40 E III – 32 Eliz (1366-1590) and presentments in the hundred court and court baron (1582) selected by the steward, William Taillor, and passed to Mr T R Steel for Mr Bateman to copy and translate 23 Oct 1845 [SRL 10/18]; extracts from court books 1657-1726 [SRL 10/59]; original surrenders and licences taken from Tarring Camois courts of 1799-1830, part of the Maryon-Wilson Archive [AMS 2680]; minutes of the courts of Tarring Camois 1799-1805, part of the Maryon-Wilson Archive [AMS 2681]


TARRING CAMOIS HISTORY AND DEEDS

The manors of Barkham, Tarring Camois and Nether Hall/Netherhall came into the ownership of the Maryon-Wilson Family of Searles and their histories often run together. This folder contains a brief history of the Manor of Tarring Camois written by Colin Hobbs [see also Colin Hobbs' history of the Manor of Nether Hall and his history of Fletching], additional historical notes and a calendar of deeds relating to Tarring Camois held at East Sussex Record Office including transcriptions of the following: Conveyance William Dawtry of More in Petworth, esq, to George Goringe of Ovingdean, esq, 30 Jun 1567, Manor of Tarring Camois and third presentation to the advowson of the Church of Fletching and lands in Pevensey and Lewes Rapes [SRL 1/1/3]; exemplification of final concord, George Gorynge, esq, v William Dawtrey, esq, 24 Jan 1569, Manor of Tarring Camois with 20 messuages, conveyance, counterpart and feoffment, 23 Aug 1595; George Goring of Lewes, to Benjamin Pellett of Truleigh in Edburton, esq, for life, premises as in SRL 1/1/3 remainder to his son and heir Thomas Pellett [SRL 1/1/7-9]


TARRING CAMOIS RENTALS

Tarring Camois Rental including castle-guard rents 3 Feb 1447 [SRL 10/6]; Rental 18 Dec 1599 [SRL 10/7]; Rental, with references to earlier court rolls 21 Mar 1608 [SRL 10/8]; Rental 29 Sep 1617 [SRL 10/9]; Rental by Thomas Medley, steward, 21 Jul 1687 [SRL 10/10]; chronological

Series Folder Description Locationabstract of court rolls by Anthony Trumble, steward, 1657-1726 [SRL 10/5A]; Survey and Rental 1723, with references to courts from 1657 and a list of customs, Anthony Trumble, steward [SRL 10/11]; Rental 1725 [SRL 10/12]; Survey and Rental 12 Oct 1737, with references to courts from 1657, Edward Wilson, esq, steward [SRL 10/13]; Rental, including the manor of Nether Hall/Netherhall, 1739 [SRL 10/14]; Rental 12 Oct 1782 [SRL 10/15]; Rental of Barkham, Netherhall and Tarring Camois 1782, naming occupiers with extensive comments by Thomas Spencer Wilson on the location and descent of the manorial tenements, mainly those purchased by John Baker-Holroyd, Lord Sheffield from John Newnham in 1785 [SRL 12/27]; Rental 12 Oct 1794 [AMS 2685]; entries relating to Tarring Camois from the Rental of Barkham, Netherhall and Tarring Camois, with references to court-books 1814 [SRL 12/31]; entries relating to Tarring Camois from the Rental of Barkham, Netherhall and Tarring Camois 1866 [SRL 12/32].

MANOR OF TARRING PEVERELL

TARRING PEVERELL MANOR COURT BOOKS AND RENTALS

Transcriptions of court barons of the Christie manor of Tarring Peverell, archive of Adams and Remers, solicitors: court book 3 Dec 1762 - 15 Oct 1767 [ADA 22]; court book 13 Jan 1772 - 8 Mar 1780 [ADA 23]; court book 13 Sept 1784 - 26 Sept 1793 [ADA 24]; court book 4 Aug1802, 28 Jul 1807, 24 Aug 1808 [ADA 25]. Transcription of the 1684 Rental [ADA 50]; photostat copy of the 1730 Rental ; photostat copy of the 1793 Rental


TARRING PEVERELL MANOR DISPUTE

Photocopies of papers relating to the dispute between Lord Sheffield and the Duke of Dorset over quit rents of tenements in Tarring Peverell held by the lords of Sheffield manor but not collected for some years.


TARRING PEVERELL MANOR HISTORY

Brief notes on the early history of this manor including work by Colin Hobbs


TARRING PEVERELL MANOR MAP

Copy of part of the 1st edition 6” ordnance survey map annotated to show the extent of manorial land including tenements in Fletching village.


TARRING PEVERELL MANOR RECORDS

Calendars of a few miscellaneous documents relating to Tarring Peverell 1638-1785; extracts from court barons 1688-1877 from the archive of Adams and Remers, solicitors [ADA 37-52]

MANOR OF THE MOTE ALIAS LITTLE HORSTED

THE MOTE ALIAS LITTLE HORSTED RENTALS, COURT BOOKS AND DEEDS

Transcription of Rental 22 May 1828 [SAS/G/ACC 923]; deed of sale, Prior of Lewes to John Smyth, Bregghouse in Fletching 1356/7, SRS Vol 38 p 113; notes on lands of the manor in Fletching taken from Court Book 1634-1888 [ SAS/G 68/3]

MANOR OF TORRING ST LEGER ALIAS

TORRING ST LEGER ALIAS

Extracts from Rental 1707 [AMS 5897/43]

Series Folder Description LocationTORRING ST CLEERE TORRING ST

CLEERE RENTALMANOR OF WAPSBOURNE

WAPSBOURNE Sketch plan of ground and first floors of Wapsbourne House c1780 from a bundle of memoranda concerning farms on the Sheffield Estate [SPK/E 13/1]; sketch of Wapsbourne in 1744 redrawn freehand from a decayed map, showing elevation of house, fields and buildings; Wapsbourne Farm as shown on the Ordnance Survey map, 1874; extracts from Viscountess Wolseley's 'Smaller Manor Houses' 1925; extracts from Viscountess Wolseley's papers formerly in Hove Reference Library; brief notes taken on a site visit; notes on place-name derivation and descent of house through various families; photographs of house chimneys and interior roof beams in wing attic; a dispute concerning the Wapsbourne gamekeeper 1727 from papers of Dowager Lady Anne Bergavenny [SPK/E 1/4]; Henry Uridge of Hamsey, brick and tile maker agreement for kiln faggots to be cut from Lord Sheffield's Wapsbourne Wood, 1810 [SPK/E 13/5]; photocopy (no transcription) of the testament and will of John Scherye (Sherry) of Wapsbourne, 1554 [W/A 3/175]; Wapsbourne pages from the sale particulars of the Sheffield Estate, 1953 [XSP 11]

MAPS AND PLANS AGGONS FARM Map of Eggants alias Aggons Farm showing messuage and fields with acreages, drawn in 1838 by William Figg [Figg 740] (also exists as a digital copy)

MAPS AND PLANS ASHDOWN FOREST Map of Ashdown Forest surveyed in 1692 by Robert Whitpaine and Alex Shoebridge

MAPS AND PLANS BRIDLEWAY DIVERSION LINDFIELD TO FLETCHING

Plans and sketches of the area between Fletching village and Ketches Farm by (or probably by Jethro Turner) showing the diversion of a bridleway from Lindfield to Fletching, passing through Sheffield Park, and the diversion of a footpath, 1774-1781 [SPK/E 13/7] [QR/E 609] [QR/E 586]

MAPS AND PLANS BROADHURST MANOR

Plan of the demesne of the manor in the Parish of Horsted Keynes, 1864

MAPS AND PLANS CHAPELRY OF DANEHILL

Copy of the plan annexed to the order in council dated 7 Mar 1851 forming the ecclesiastical parish of Danehill (also exists as a digital copy)

MAPS AND PLANS CHELWOOD BEACON FARM

Map attached to 1875 sale particulars (also exists as a digital copy)

MAPS AND PLANS CHELWOOD COMMON . . .

Plan of Chelwood Common and woods in the Parish of Fletching belonging to the Honourable H Brand; surveyor J Funnell, Newick; 1856; woods are named, acreage of woods and waste stated,

Series Folder Description Locationand names of adjoining owners shown [GLY 3485]

MAPS AND PLANS CHELWOOD GATE Copy of part of the Horsted Keynes/Broadhurst Enclosure Map,1864, showing the area enclosed at Chelwood Gate including Beaconsfield Road, Stonequarry Road, the north end of Tanyard Lane and Boxes Lane [PRO MAP 1/346]

MAPS AND PLANS CHELWOOD GATE Plan of the A275 between the Red Lion and Sandy Lane drawn by the District Surveyors Office at the request of L A Buckland for the purpose of an enquiry into the sale of land along the A275; 1975

MAPS AND PLANS CHURCH LANE Large-scale plan of Church Lane in 1840 showing land use; drawn by James Rawlings probably for the society's farming project

MAPS AND PLANS CHURCH LANE Plan of Church Lane showing each house and the period of history in which it was probably built

MAPS AND PLANS COLIN GODMANS Survey of Colin Godmans, part of the estate of John Baker Holroyd, Lord Sheffield

MAPS AND PLANS DANEHILL Map of Danehill c1873 copied from the papers of Margaret Witter, the deeds of Meyer Cottage, London Road, Danehill (also exists as a digital copy)

MAPS AND PLANS DANEHILL PARISH BOUNDARY CHANGES

Ordnance survey map showing the land taken from Maresfield Parish and added to Danehill Parish as a result of the Wealden Parishes Order 1990

MAPS AND PLANS DANEHILL CHURCHYARD

Landscape design for Danehill Churchyard drawn by J Exley, May 1987, for the Danehill Parish Church Council; 2 sheets

MAPS AND PLANS DANEHURST ESTATE

Plan No 1 showing a portion of the Danehurst Estate; attached to sale particulars, 1921

MAPS AND PLANS DANEHURST ESTATE

Map of the Danehurst Estate in the parishes of Fletching, Horsted Keynes and Lindfield; attached to sale particulars, 1875

Series Folder Description LocationMAPS AND PLANS DANEHURST

ESTATETracing of a plan drawn by William Figg of part of the Danehurst Estate showing a freehold farm containing properties formerly known as Newmans, Hammings, Huggetts, 1817; includes Mount Noddy, Sterresherne; attached to a deed formerly held by Mrs Hardy and dated 21 May 1827 (digital copy also)

MAPS AND PLANS FLETCHING PARISH

A series of sketch maps drawn by James Rawlings, most based on a tracing of the same map; includes map of the farms with acreages within the parish in 1840 (exists also as a digital copy); the boundary of the Parish of Fletching; the boundary of the later Parish of Danehill; maps showing the roads, waterways, waste land, commons and early housing in the parish; the boundaries of the manors of Sheffield, Horsted/Broadhurst, Barkham, Tarring Camois, Tarring Peverel, Netherhall, copyhold and freehold land within the manors (exists also as a digital copy); the location of bombs dropped during the second world war (exists also as a digital copy)

MAPS AND PLANS FLETCHING SCHOOL

Front and side elevations, ground plan, section and plan of large windows by Henry Card of Lewes, Jul 1865 [BGP 18/2]; ground plan of the site of the school endorsed Gaulty and Gibbins of London and Brighton, architects [BGP 21/1]

MAPS AND PLANS FLETCHING TITHE MAP

Tracing of part of the Fletching Tithe Map showing Freshfield Lane, Northlands, Danehurst

MAPS AND PLANS FLETCHING TITHE MAP

Copy of the tithe map of the Parish of Fletching drawn by Thomas Hughes 1840 [PRO IR30/35/106A

MAPS AND PLANS FOREST FARM Plan of Forest Farm in the Parish of Fletching surveyed by Figg, 1810 [ACC 2933/1/1/4]

MAPS AND PLANS FRESHFIELD MILL Sketch plan of the area around the site of Freshfield Mill, which incudes The Sloop and Freshfield Farm, drawn by James Rawlings.

MAPS AND PLANS FRESHFIELD LANE Freshfield Lane area taken from the tithe maps of Horsted Keynes and Fletching.

MAPS AND PLANS GROUP OF SMALL ESTATE MAPS

Includes Ruttingham (also exists as a digital copy) , Hurst Lands (also exists as a digital copy) and Haywards Down all in the Parish of Fletching [SAS/WG 880]

Series Folder Description LocationMAPS AND PLANS HESE GREEN Plan of the Hese Green area by William Figg, 1803; from papers relating to boundary-disputes

between the Searles and Sheffield estates, including a hearing at the assizes concerning trespasses at Hese Bridge Lane and Hatches Lane, Splaynes Green; also sketch map on reverse of a memorandum showing the way from Stephens Farm to Hese Bridge, dated July 22, 1815 [SRL 22/12] (also exists as a digital copy)

MAPS AND PLANS HOMESDALE Copy [by William Figg] of John Marchant's plan of 1783 of the Homesdale/Holmsdale Estate in Fletching Parish showing the manorial tenures; from papers in John Baker-Holroyd, Earl of Sheffield v Thomas Shaw, case concerning the right to trees in Spring Lane, tried at Lewes Summer Assizes 1816 [AMS 2834] (also exists as a digital copy)

MAPS AND PLANS HOMESDALE Plan of Homesdale/Holmsdale and Spring Farms [by William Figg]; from papers in John Baker-Holroyd, Earl of Sheffield v Thomas Shaw, case concerning the right to trees in Spring Lane, tried at Lewes Summer Assizes 1816 [AMS 2835]

MAPS AND PLANS LINDFIELD [PART] Tracing of Plan [2] of estates in the Parish of Lindfield for sale by Mr W H Hewitt c1852; includes Great Walstead Farm, Cockhaise Farm, Cockhaise Mill

MAPS AND PLANS MAWLES, LODGE FARM AND SPLAYNES GREEN FARM/WORGERS

A survey of Mawles Land, Lodge Farm, Splaynes Green Farm or Worgers, the estate of John Baker-Holroyd by Bernard Scale 1774 [AMS 4610(3)] (also exists as a digital copy)

MAPS AND PLANS MOUNT NODDY A copy of a plan of Mount Noddy Farm and part of Northlands in the Parish of Fletching conveyed form the Earl of Sheffield to Francis Davies in 1834 in exchange for Warrs Farm in Chailey (also exists as a digital copy)

MAPS AND PLANS PARISH BOUNDARIES

Printed map from Wealden District Council showing parishes in the Danehill/Fletching area.

MAPS AND PLANS POUND FARM Plan of Pound Farm and other lands forming part of the Sheffield Park estate (also exists as a digital copy)

MAPS AND PLANS SHEFFIELD PLACE James Wyatt's drawings for Sheffield Place, 1787

MAPS AND PLANS SHEFFIELD PLACE A map of Sheffield Place belonging to the Rt Hon the Lord de La Warre measured by Richard Gadesby, 1745 [AMS 4609] (part of this map, hand-drawn, also exists as a digital copy)

MAPS AND PLANS SPRING LANE Plan of the Spring Lane area by William Figg; probably from papers in John Baker-Holroyd, Earl of Sheffield v Thomas Shaw, the case concerning the right to trees in Spring Lane [SRL 22/14] (digital copy only)

Series Folder Description LocationMAPS AND PLANS UCKFIELD

WORKHOUSEPlans of the union workhouse at Uckfield; Danehill and Fletching parishes were within the Uckfield Union

MAPS AND PLANS WARRS Sketch of Warrs in the Parish of Chailey conveyed from Lieutenant Col Davies to the Rt Hon Earl of Sheffield in exchange for Mount Noddy Farm and part of Northlands in 1834 (also exists as a digital copy)

MAPS AND PLANS WEST HOATHLY Plan of the Parish of West Hoathly drawn by Thomas Hughes, 1899

MAPS AND PLANS WEST HOATHLY TITHE MAP

Copy of the tithe map for West Hoathly.

MISCELLANEOUS APPRENTICES Notes on the apprenticeship system taken from Trevelyan's 'English Social History'; notes on apprentices in the local area mainly from Sussex Record Society Volume 28 and Quarter Session Records

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MISCELLANEOUS ARCHITECTS Brief biographies of architects of important buildings in the local area including All Saints Church, Danehill: Charles Eamer Kempe 1837-1907; George Frederick Bodley 1827-1907; Benjamin Henry Latrobe 1764-1820

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MISCELLANEOUS ASHDOWN FAIR 1973

Original Programme; photographs of the fair including one of the Historical Society stall CG

MISCELLANEOUS ASHDOWN FOREST Copy of an extent of Ashdown Forest 1274 [PRO SC 12 15/46]; further extracts from medieval documents relating to Ashdown Forest in translation; inquisition of commoners' rights on Ashdown Forest 1610; list of defendants claiming common on Ashdown Forest 1693; commoners' committee papers, protest against the Ashdown Forest Bill, 1973-1974; papers relating to John of Gaunt's hunting lodge; excerpts from 'Ashdown Forest' by Garth Christian; indenture relating to sale of Ashdown Forest, 1680, with transcription and translation by Huw Prendegast, formerly Director of Ashdown Forest Centre; extracts from an inquisition into rights in Ashdown Forest, 30 May 1610, from the archive of the Maryon-Wilson Family of Searles [SRL 24/1]; sketch map showing possible locations of tenements on and around the forest at the time of Domesday Book

MISCELLANEOUS ASHDOWN FOREST PAPERS

The Ashdown Forest Papers [ESRO ADD MSS 3780-4140] represent a heterogenous collection of material emanating from the Ashdown Forest Case (1876-1882)which attempted to settle the disputes arising from claimed rights of common over the Forest by local inhabitants against the manorial lords, the De La Warr family. Contained in this folder are extracts from Sussex Record Society volume 'Ashdown Forest Case' including a few depositions concerning litter cutting, plus other miscellaneous notes on Medieval forests.

MISCELLANEOUS CHELWOOD Licences and fines relating to Chelwood Common extracted from the Manor of Sheffield Court CG

Series Folder Description LocationCOMMON LICENCES AND FINES

Books 1583-1607

MISCELLANEOUS CRICKET Papers relating to cricket at Sheffield Park: article 'Sheffield Park and the Third Lord Sheffield'; souvenir programme for the 9 September 1990 cricket match compiled by Peter Wiggan; extracts from 'Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game' including the match report for the Australian Tour Match played at Sheffield Park in May 1896; newspaper cuttings reporting matches at Sheffield Park

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MISCELLANEOUS DIRECTORIES Notes extracted from and photocopies of local directories relating to Danehill and district, including Kelly's Directory and the Post Office Directory. The extracts are in chronological order 1839 to 1938.

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MISCELLANEOUS EARLY DEEDS Collection of fifteenth and sixteenth century deeds relating to properties within the localities of Danehill and Fletching.

MISCELLANEOUS EARLY RECIPES AND REMEDIES

Recipes found by Margaret Holt and transcribed by Hylda Rawlings, probably sixteenth century; great grans' remedies

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MISCELLANEOUS IRON INDUSTRY Letter from members of the Wealden Iron Research Group regarding the find of bloomery slag on Sliders Farm land ie Haven Farm Bloomery, 1987 [dated by postmark]; Fifth Interim Report on Excavations at Garden Hill [For further interim reports see also Garden Hill folder]; copy of 'Inventory of Sheffield Mill 1548' Sussex Archaeological Collections Volume 13 pp 127-128; extracts from 'The Mill in Sheffield Forest' by R Thurston Hopkins; extracts from 'Wealden Iron' by Ernest Straker, information on iron working in Horsted Keynes, Freshfield, Sheffield, Fletching; extracts from 'The Iron Industry of the Weald' by Cleere and Crossley, 1985, with information on Fletching, Freshfield, Sheffield, Danehill-Horsted Hundred, Chailey, Maresfield; newspaper cutting 'Re-creating a Roman Bloomery' by Margaret, Fred and Roger Tebbutt; sheet with table showing number of blast furnaces in England between 1574 and 1790 and a diagram of a nineteenth century blast furnace; copy of 1st Edition OS Map 1875 showing the course of the River Ouse from Horsted Keynes, through Sheffield Park and Fletching; two sketch maps showing the area of the former Freshfield Forge; sketch made from the Chailey Tithe Map of fields with names showing a connection to iron working; sketch made from the Fletching Tithe Map of 1840 showing the area of the former forge near Sheffield Park Station; notes on Sheffield Iron Mill from the Radford Papers; miscellaneous notes on iron working and mill owners in the local area

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Series Folder Description LocationMISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND

PAPERS FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC

A compilation of references to the parishes of Fletching and Horsted Keynes and the manor of Sheffield from 'Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic' made by T V Packman, Dec 1973

MISCELLANEOUS LICENSED PREMISES

Licensed Premises in Danehill and Fletching taken from the Uckfield Licences Register 1872-1974

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MISCELLANEOUS LISTED HOUSES Listed houses in the Wealden District CG

MISCELLANEOUS MEETING HOUSE LICENCES

List of Meeting House Licences 1809-1852 CG

MISCELLANEOUS NEWHAVEN CUT RATE 1537

A rate raised for the cutting out of the Haven at Newhaven with the names of rate payers form Horsted Keynes and Fletching . It was found amongst his/her father's papers by H Morley[GLY 84]

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MISCELLANEOUS NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS

Articles of local interest cut or copied from Sussex newspapers CG

MISCELLANEOUS NON CONFORMIST CHAPELS

Phtotostat copy of two chapters from a book on non conformist chapels in Sussex. Contains information on the history, and a photograph of, the Zion Chapel in Danehill

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MISCELLANEOUS OAK HALL Purchased in 1990 by Mr and Mrs Melvyn Tarran and housing his collection of Gilbert and Sullivan memorabilia it was bought by the National Trust. Programme for a Gilbert and Sullivan concert performed at Oak Hall.

Series Folder Description LocationMISCELLANEOUS OLD NEWSPAPERS War-time newspapers CG

MISCELLANEOUS PILTDOWN MAN Article on Piltdown Man written by Sharon Searle CG

MISCELLANEOUS PLACE NAMES Notes from a variety of sources on the derivation of place names in the locality of Danehill. CG

MISCELLANEOUS ROTHERFIELD SON ET LUMIERE

Draft of the script CG

MISCELLANEOUS SLIDERS FARM AIR CRASH

Copy of the accident report 1936 CG

MISCELLANEOUS SUSSEX DEFENCES Plans for the defence of Sussex in the case of an invasion by the French under Napoleon. Taken from a variety of sources.

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MISCELLANEOUS TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS

Typescript list of names of people from the Danehill, Chelwood Common, Horsted Keynes and Fletching areas involved in a trade. The information is taken from a variety of sources and covers the seventeenth century to the nineteenth.

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PEOPLE ATTENBOROUGH, MAY

Correspondence from 2009 between Brian and Sue Tester and the Fiji Museum regarding Major William Edmund Willoughby-Tottenham, second husband of May Attenborough adopted daughter of the Third Earl of Sheffield.

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PEOPLE HENNING, RACHEL Photocopies of pages from 'The Letters Of Rachel Henning' by Norman Lindsay printed in Sydney, 1952; letters written to her sister, the wife of Rev Thomas White Boyce, the first vicar of the newly-formed parish of Danehill, and others from her brother's sheep farm in New South

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Series Folder Description LocationWales, Australia and Danehill Vicarage between 1853 and 1882. The letters contain reminiscences of Danehill and the surrounding countryside. Also in this folder is the script and the list of slides used for the DPHS talk of January 2005.

PEOPLE KNELL, WILLIAM Inventory of the goods of William Knell of Danehill, 1730 CG

PEOPLE LANGRIDGE FAMILY

Langridge and Turner families of Fletching with a photograph of Mary Langridge CG

PEOPLE LEPPARD FAMILY History of the Leppard Family of Sussex, produced by Group Captain R W Leppard CG

PEOPLE LOCAL FAMILIES Randomly acquired information on local families. Maryan and Wood family; Sherlock family; Page family of Fletching, Manners family of Chelwood Common; John Joynes; Thompsett family including wills; photographs and family tree of the Ormiston family; Funnells of Fletching; brief biography of Albert Lucas of Collingford Lane, d 1945; information from wills relating to the Maynard/Mainard/Mainwood family properties, Holelands, Perrymans, Wildnutts, Bryans Wood, Plumpton, Oddens, Freshfield Mill, 1701; will of John Newnham of Maresfield 1691; Darry Weller, poacher; John Stevenson of Brook Cottage, roadman; Bennett family photographs; Taylor family; Fleet family; Root(es) family; Woodgate family; baptismal certificate of Charles Brooker baptised October 14 1827 names parents and gives date of birth

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PEOPLE MOWCOMBER FAMILY

Abstract from The Sussex Genealogist – The Mowcombers: a French Family in Sussex CG

Series Folder Description LocationPEOPLE SOAMES FAMILY Miscellaneous notes

PEOPLE CORBETT-ASHBY, DAME MARGERY

Dame Margery Corbett-Ashby was the first president of the Danehill Parish Historical Society, a life-long resident of Danehill and friend of Harold MacMillan of Birch Grove. This file contains brief biographical notes from a variety of sources and copies of family photographs; copies of photographs of Dame Margery and family taken from 'Sussex Women'.

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PEOPLE GIBBON, EDWARD Brief notes on Edward Gibbon and his connection with Sheffield Park; Edward Gibbon Bi-Centenary Celebration leaflet, 1994; newspaper article on Gibbon and Sheffield Place 'In search of the history man'

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PEOPLE HARDY FAMILY Various papers relating specifically to the Hardy family [not estate papers] including a copy of the letter sent to Mrs Herbert Hardy in Apr 1899 when she left the village Danehurst, report of the funeral of Herbert Hardy, Aug 1888 and an article about Captain Ronald Montagu Hardy from the Danehill Church Magazine, 194

PEOPLE MAY FAMILY May Family of the Crocodile, Danehill, invoices, 1911-1916 CG

PEOPLE TEBBUTT, FRED Times obituary, January 1986 CG

PLACES ANNWOOD FARM Abstract of documents relating to Annwood Farm some from the Searle Archive, 1619-1m

PLACES BAKERS SHOP AND TERRY'S ROW

Notes on The Old Bakery, Terry's Row, Danehill; notes on owners and occupiers including the Terry and Huggett families; two slides: portraits of Martha Terry and Sarah Huggett; 'A Visit To The Bakers': article and notes by Hylda Rawlings; original bakery paper bag with picture of the

Series Folder Description LocationOld Bakery on the front

PLACES CHANDLERS Papers relating to Chandlers, Furners Green – original abstract of title, 1876; copy of 1965 abstract of title to the freehold property known as Woodbury, Furners Green; 5 photographs

PLACES CHELWOOD COMMON

Enclosure Award Schedule for Chelwood Common,1864

PLACES CHELWOOD FARM Article 'The Awcock Family of Chelwood Farm'; extracts from the Land Tax relating to the area; notes on Chelwood Farm/Cold Godmans, Anwood Farm, Masketts Farm, Beacon Farm; family tree of the Awcock family of Chelworth; sketch taken from the Figg Map of Chelwood Farm area; extracts from the Sheffield Park Stewards Accounts 1787-1803 [SPK/62/2]; abstract of an article from the Sussex Express 25 October 1870 'Robbery at Chelwood Farm'

PLACES CHELWOOD GATE JUBILEE GREEN

Legal opinion regarding land at Chelwood Gate, Danehill, later to become Jubilee Green

PLACES CHELWOOD VACHERY

Research on the early history of Chelwood Vachery by Mrs Balean, former owner, and Christopher Whittick of East Sussex Record Office. [Mrs Balean believes that the Vachery was the site of John of Gaunt's Palace or Hunting Lodge; Mr Whittick does not.]

PLACES COLIN GODMANS House survey copied from Sussex Notes and Queries; descent of the property taken from the Mrs King Sheffield Park papers; extracts from 'Some of the Smaller Manor Houses of Sussex' by Viscountess Worsley; descent of the tenement compiled by Viscountess Worsley; additional notes taken from a variety of sources including the Lancaster, Radford and de Bourbel papers and Sheffield Court Rolls

PLACES COW[L]STOCKS Notes on the history of Cowstocks made by Ruth Bird; papers relating to Thomas Cowlstok including a translation of a deed of gift to Thomas Cowlstok of Haming in the Parish of Fletching 1568, a translation of a conveyance from John Ashfold to Thomas Cowlstok of Haminges in the parish of Fletching 1568 and a translation of a quit claim Thomas Cowlstock to Richard Awcock of Hamings in Fletching 1570 [Lancaster of Wapsbourne Papers]

PLACES CUMNOR HOUSE SCHOOL

Various items relating to Cumnor House School donated by Mrs G Prouse of Avenings Cottage, Danehill: [her husband George Prouse worked at the school 1948-1962]: prospectus from the early 1950s; photograph of the outdoor theatre laid out by George; photograph of Mrs Nancy Milner-Gulland and L H Milner-Gulland, headmaste; photograph of the whole school with members of staff; two sports photographs

PLACES DANEHILL SCHOOL

Brief history of Danehill School; extracts from the school register; Danehill Church School Weekend souvenir book, 17-18 May, 1980 with photographs; memories of Danehill School 1936-1939 [See also the society's Education Project];

PLACES DANEHURST Documents relating to Danehurst now St Raphael's Nursing Home: pamphlet history of St

Series Folder Description LocationRaphael's Nursing Home; 'Danehurst' a booklet by D M Forrest; Danehurst sale particulars including Sliders, Stoaches, Moaps, Town Place, Kidborough, Cockhaise, July 1921

PLACES DANEHURST DE BOURBEL PAPERS

The family and business papers of Henri de Bourbel, Compte de Montpinion,1789-1816, deposited with East Sussex Record Office in Feb 1960 by Miss E de Bourbel as 'Papers from the Archive of the Spence and de Bourbel families, 1387-1878' [AMS 4963-5367] In this file are extracts from, and translations of, deeds dating from 1387 relating to Heaven Farm, Hammings, Newmans, Huggetts and Danewood in Fletching Parish, family correspondence 1789-1816, business correspondence 1792-1814 and wills 1555-1796

PLACES DANEHURST HARDY PAPERS

Extracts from deeds and other documents relating to the Danehurst estate in Danehill, Fletching, Chailey, Lindfield, Horsted Keynes and West Hoathly, founded by Francis John Davis c1837 and later in the possession of the Hardy family. The originals of these documents are now at East Sussex Record Office with the reference HDY. The documents are contained in two ring files and a folder with additional copies; the pages are numbered and there is an index of people and properties. Included in these volumes are copies of Awcock Family deeds relating to lands in Fletching, West Hoathly and Maresfield, 18th century, conveyance of land in Danehill to build a vicarage now Richard Bertram House, Danehill Windmill and deeds relating to Allens and Jefferys Farm, Blacklands/The Old Forge at Freshfield Crossways, Broadwater Pit, Danehill Farm/Gardners, Latchetts, Bineham and Stoaches Farms, Kidborough Farm, Heaven Farm, Great Portmansford, Little Portmansford, Three Cornered Croft, Goddenwick Farm, Plummerden Farm, Heghefeld near Sterresherne, Sterresherne, Huggetts, Moaps Farm, Mound Noddy, Tremans.

PLACES GARDEN HILL Interim Excavation Reports on the archaeology of the Romano-British iron working settlement at Garden Hill, Hartfield

PLACES HEAVEN/HAVEN FARM

Copy of sale particulars for Heaven Farm,1827; extract from the Danehurst Estate Sale Catalogue 1875; newspaper cuttings; 'site layout and existing buildings' plan made for John Butler by RA Hyder, Jan 1986; leaflets and guides to the farm buildings; 'History of Heaven Farm 1820-1920' booklet; offprint 'Heaven Farm' by Kay Coutin Journal of Historic Farm Buildings Volume 13 1999; photographs of the farm buildings taken in 1999 by Kay Coutin; short article by Kay Coutin on the copper in the slaughterhouse at Heaven Farm, 1986; article 'Haven Farm, The Farm and Farmstead in the Nineteenth Century', February 1986; brief history of work on Haven Farm by John Butler, 1987; 'Haven Farm, Furners Green' by Hylda Rawlings, DPHS Volume 1 No 5 1979; Hop Industry Research, survey by Gwen Jones and John Bell, February 1986; Ben Paine description of renovations at Haven Farm, June 1986; notes made on the buildings of Heaven Farm by Jim Oliver and Margaret Holt, Wealden Buildings Study Group, October 1984; copy of ordnance survey map of Heaven Farm and area; translation of deed of Richard Hemmyng relating to land in Fletching Parish, 1393 [AMS 4964]

PLACES HOLMESDALE Extracts from the probate inventory of Dedicot Rootes, October 1716; notes on the Rootes Family

Series Folder Description Locationof Holmesdale, Fletching,1670-1722 by Joan Holman, July 1992; notes on Holmesdale Farm by Derek Rawlings, October 1990; house report by Margaret Holt, Wealden Buildings Study Group

PLACES ISLE OF THORNS Off-print 'The Magic Isle of Thorns' by Horace Beddington; offprint 'A Camp For Town Boys' Country Life; miscellaneous notes; letter to Michael Longley from Mrs Balean relating the history of The Vachery but mentions the Isle of Thorns; copy of a plan of lots 1-7, the Isle of Thorns, taken from the 1926 Maresfield Park sale catalogue; extracts relating to the Isle of Thorns from Fletching Poor Law Rate Book (1740-1750) and Fletching Land Tax Returns (1730-1831); sketch map of the Isle of Thorns, photographs probably from an advertising leaflet c1930

PLACES NUTLEY Article from The Chichester Magazine, 1993, on the new church at Nutley built in the nineteenth century; headmasters and teachers at Nutley Primary School from the reminiscences of Harry John Peckham (1841-1922) vicar of Nutley 1882-1913.

PLACES SEARLES MARYON-WILSON ARCHIVE

Calendar of documents in the archive of the Maryon-Wilson family of Searles relating to properties in the manors of Barkham, Nether Hall/Netherhall and Tarring Camois, 1311-1831 [ESRO References supplied]. Photocopy of the sales particulars for the auction of the Searles Estate 6 May 1952 including Holmesdale Dairy Farm, Clapwater Farm, Moyses Farm and various cottages; Maryon-Wilson Family pedigree; brief notes on the family of Maryon-Wilson of Searles

PLACES SHEFFIELD ARMS Notes, taken from a variety of sources in East Sussex Record Office, on the history of the Sheffield Arms formerly The New Inn and The Lewes Arms, Fletching.

PLACES SPRINGFIELD COTTAGE BOTCHECROFTE BOTCHES

Descent of the property, mainly from Sheffield Manor court books, by Hylda Rawlings; house survey by Margaret Holt

PLACES STONE QUARRY INN

Original papers relating to the transfer and licensing of the property, 1963-1984; plans and elevations,1979 [WD/79/3766/X]

PLACES TREEMANS Short history; photograph of Richard Wyatt's 1729 Map of Treemans

PLACES TWYFORD SCHOOL Extracts from Twyford School Log Book; Katherine Randall's [nee Farncombe] (1901-1985) memories of school friends at Twyford School [See also the society's 1985 project on education.]

PLACES WOODGATE Sketch map of Woodgate c1903 drawn from memories of Dame Margery Corbett-Ashby and Mr Charlie Bates; sales particulars, 1818; sales particulars with maps, 1882; key to 1873 Map of Woodgate Estate (taken from the deeds of Meyer Cottage, Danehill); pencil notes from abstract of title of the Woodgate Estate, 1873-1883; extracts from Lewes Quarter Sessions Court Order Book 1816 for the Woodgate road diversion [QD/EW/42]; note by Phil Lucas on Woodgate wages in World War 1; newspaper cutting: Mr C H Corbett's memorial service at Danehill

RESEARCH PAPERS BRYAN HALE Research paper, 'Old Surnames In The Horsted Keynes, Birch Grove, Freshfield And Danehill CG

Series Folder Description LocationPAPERS Area' an overview of the area at the time of the Norman Conquest; list of miscellaneous items of

archaeological interest found locallyRESEARCH PAPERS DESMOND MARTIN

PAPERSNotes, taken from primary sources in The National Archives and East Sussex Record Office, relating to Maresfield Chapel; notes on the Awcock Family of Chelwood, Maresfield and Fletching.

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RESEARCH PAPERS HYLDA RAWLINGS PAPERS

Quarter Session Records. (The Quarter Sessions were a court of limited criminal and civil jurisdiction and of appeal, usually held quarterly by two justices of the peace in a county or by a recorder in a borough. They were replaced in 1972 by the Crown Courts. Their records were originally kept by the Clerk of the Court and handed on to successive holders of that office. They became the responsibility of the County Council in the nineteenth century and subsequently of County Record Offices.) These documents, selected from sessions held at both Lewes and East Grinstead, include witness statements, petitions to the justices, court summons, bail recognizances and give names, occupations and dwelling places. They paint a vivid picture of social behaviour and the administration of the law. The following are transcriptions made by Hylda Rawlings from the Quarter Session records chiefly for the parishes of Horsted Keynes and Fletching 1583-1800, but additional records of exceptional interest from other parishes have been included. ESRO references are supplied. There is also a selection of photostat copies of printed Quarter Session forms and additionally notes made by Hylda on Quarter Sessions and the administration of justice for a putative book.

RESEARCH PAPERS KENWARD FAMILY PAPERS

'Red-Letter Days at Piltdown' and 'Smocks and Charcoal': memories of the Piltdown area and the discovery of Piltdown Man written by Mabel Kenward, published in the Sussex County Magazine; notes on the Clinton Family of Clinton Lodge, Fletching, researched by G R D Kenward; papers relating to the Kenward family tree; papers relating to the history of Fletching donated by family members; abstracts of documents relating to the Kenward family of Sharps in Fletching, 1657-2006, held in East Sussex Record Office [ACC 9632]

RESEARCH PAPERS LESLIE BUCKLAND PAPERS

Leslie Buckland's articles, short housing reports and reports on archaeological finds and excavations in the locality: 'Medieval Pottery Found At Chelwood Gate, Sussex' artefacts found in the garden of Cherry Tree Cottage, Chelwood Gate, 1981; 'Archaeological Finds In Dane Hill And Chelwood Gate' finds made along the Horsted Keynes to Blackhill water main including maps, 1981; 'Pieces Of Old Gravestone Found At Brookside, Horsted Lane, Danehill' 1975; 'Mystery Pit Near Tanyard Lane, Chelwood Gate' 1977; 'Continuing The Story Of The Mystery Pit At Little Aggons And Wheelers Farm, Tanyard Lane' 1978; 2nd Interim Report 'Excavations at Chelwood Gate' [Danes Graves] Jan 1987, Nick Wickenden, Field Director; 'John of Gaunt's Hunting Lodge' article by Leslie Buckland, 1983; short housing research reports on Cherry Cottage and Little Dene; short research report on The Coach & Horses Public House. Also from Leslie Buckland's papers: photocopy of the Court Barons of the Manor of Horsted Broadhurst 1699 to 1924

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Series Folder Description Location[mentions Coach and Horses]; photocopy of the will of Robert Tompsett 1780; photocopy of the will of John Tompsett 1817; photocopy of the will of Mary Lambert 1836; photocopy of the will of James Lambert 1842

RESEARCH PAPERS RUTH BIRD PAPERS Extracts from the Horsted Keynes tithe books; extracts relating to Horsted Keynes and Lindfield from a printed volume 'Proceedings of Meetings of the Deputy Lieutenancy for the internal defence of the county' an account of what each parish would provide in case of invasion, 1801; short monograph 'Payment of Tithes in Horsted Keynes'; notes on the Horsted Keynes Vestry Books; short monograph 'The Relationship between Horsted Keynes and Broadhurst'; extracts from court rolls and other documents relating to Horsted/ Broadhurst properties including Cowstocks (Timber Cottage), Stoaches in Freshfield Lane, Kidborough, Town Place (Towners and Hamms); translation of deed John Mershe to Joan formerly the wife of Richard Durkyn a messuage and land in Fletching, Jul 1454/5; translation of the will of Edward Egland of the Parish of Horsted Keynes, Mar 1584; article by Ruth Bird with additional information from Hylda Rawlings on George Kimber, an emigrant from Horsted Keynes; list of buildings in Horsted Keynes of special architectural interest and notes on some properties, July 1983; manuscript and type-written copies of part one of the tithe book or journal of Giles Moore, Rector of Horsted Keynes 1655-1679 [The first seven pages only of Part One and the whole of Part Two of the journal were printed in Volume 68 of the Sussex Record Society publications. ] Brief biography.

RESEARCH PAPERS JAMES/DEREK RAWLINGS

Three volumes containing tenement histories of properties within the local manors of Sheffield, Maresfield, Barkham, Tarring Camois and Tarring Peverell manors compiled by James/Derek Rawlings from a variety of sources including court books, surveys and the Buckhurst Terrier.

SHEFFIELD FAMILY PAPERS

FAMILY SKETCHBOOKS

Early nineteenth century drawings of local houses and people from the family sketchbooks including sketches of Sheffield Place,The Wharf, limekiln at the wharf, Sheffield Arms, Chequers Inn at Sheffield Green, forge at Sheffield Green, Sheffield Green, Pound Farm, oast house at Pound Farm, Ketches Farm, Rock Cottage, Roger's Cottage on Sheffield Common, Carver's Cottage, Wapsbourne Farm, Daleham Cottage, The New Poor House at Splaynes Green, The Old Workhouse, Fletching Mill, Fletching Church, Portmansford Farm, The White Horse Inn, Bramblety Manor, view on Chelwood Common [A2714] and [SPK *]

SHEFFIELD ESTATE COLLECTION KING PAPERS

Calendars of the Sheffield Estate papers purchased from Mrs King of Fletching at the Phillips Sale, 1981 [ESRO 2714] Includes references to Lower Clapwater and Sliders Farm, Wygars/Vigoes and Huggetts, Wapsborne, Little Lane End Farm in Chailey, Daleham Farm, Stevens and Stubbegrove, Barelands, Spratts, White Lion in Fletching, Flitridges, Rowlands, Elliots and Lodgegate Croft, Warrs Farm in Chailey, Manor of Warningore, Colin Godmans, Byrges Bastyons, Leggs Wood, Allens Wood, Great and Little Portmansford, Atheralls Farm, Eastlands Farm, Northlands in Maresfield, Manor of Tarring Peverell

SHEFFIELD ESTATE COLLECTION Abstracts of deeds, and full translations of selected deeds, relating to the Sheffield Estate which

Series Folder Description LocationLANCASTER PAPERS

were purchased by Mr and Mrs Lancaster of Wapsborne and listed by Hylda Rawlings [ACC 1865]. The documents are contained in a ring folder with an index of people and properties, a card file entitled 'full copies of selected deeds' with an index of people and properties, and a card file entitled 'summary of the Lancaster deeds, lower copies'.

SHEFFIELD ESTATE COLLECTION RADFORD PAPERS

Abstracts of documents purchased by Mr and Mrs Radford of Sheffield Park with an index of people and places; photostat copies of maps bearing the date 1845 of copyhold tenements in the manors of Sheffield and Tarring Peverell including Northlands, Marylebone Fields, Turners, part of Birchetts, The Chequers, Brays, Pierces, Inhams, Collingfords, Woodgate, Danewood House, Christopher Fields, Assenders, Brookland, Maybones/Waybones, Puckhole, Blackdog, North Northlands, Inhams or Birchetts, Folly Farm, Moaps, Moyses Farm

SHEFFIELD ESTATE LORD SHEFFIELD'S MODEL FARM

'Lord Sheffield's Model Farm': article by Kay Coutin from 'The Journal of the Historic Farm Buildings Group' Volume 4, 1990, with illustrations; extract from a letter from James Sanderson of East Grinstead concerning alterations at the farmyard at Sheffield Park, 1805 [SPK/E 12/1]; listing schedule for the farm buildings and farm house, 1990

SHEFFIELD ESTATE MAPS AND SCHEDULES

Schedule to the 1816 Plan of the Sheffield Estate drawn by William Ebden, which lists individual farms and their fields with acreages [ACC 6975]

SHEFFIELD ESTATE SALE CATALOGUE 1953

Ring file containing a photocopy of the catalogue for the sale of the Sheffield Park Estate, Dec 1953, which contains details of Sheffield Park, both house and gardens, the home farms, fifteen tenanted farms, woodland, twelve houses and cottages; newspaper cutting advertising the sale of Sheffield Park contents and house

SHEFFIELD ESTATE STEWARDS ACCOUNTS

Extracts from stewards account books (journals), a record of expenditure on buildings, animals, wages, bills and the income from rents, 1773-1812 [SPK/E/2/1 – SPK/E/2/3]; extracts from stewards vouchers to account bundles mostly relating to the stewards account books, 1773-1812 [SPK E/3/1 – SPK E/3/7]

SHEFFIELD ESTATE VALUATION 1770 Photostat copy of a valuation of Sheffield Estate lands within the parishes of Fletching, Horsted Keynes, West Hoathley, Little Horsted, made c 1770 for John Baker-Holroyd


JOHN BAKER-HOLROYD, FIRST EARL OF SHEFFIELD

John Baker-Holroyd purchased and improved the Sheffield Park estate in Sussex, employing James Wyatt to rebuild the house in the gothic style and Capability Brown and Humphrey Repton to lay out the park. Calendar of the letters of Lady Elizabeth Foster, family friend, from the correspondence in the archive of John Baker-Holroyd, Earl of Sheffield [AMS 5440]; copy of letter from Lord Sheffield to General Gage concerning the defence of Sussex against Napoleon, 1781 [AMS 2535]; copy of a letter from John Ellman of Glynde to Lord Sheffield regarding the boundary between Horsted Broadhurst and Sheffield manors, 19 Mar 1812 [ACC 9366/4/9]; copy of a letter to John Baker-Holroyd containing the valuation of the Sheffield estate which he had requested before his purchase, 15 April 1769; list of Sheffield family letters held in the Stanley

Series Folder Description Locationfamily of Alderley collection at Cheshire Record Office


MARIA JOSEPHA HOLROYD

Maria Josepha Stanley (nee Holroyd) 1771-1863 was one of the daughters of the 1st Earl of Sheffield. Photocopy of the book 'The Girlhood of Maria Josepha Holroyd Recorded in Letters of a Hundred Years Ago 1776-1796' edited by Jane Adeane published 1897


HENRY STANLEY THIRD EARL OF SHEFFIELD

Love letters and papers relating to Lord Sheffield's natural daughter; papers relating to the adoption of May Attenborough


JOHN BAKER-HOLROYD, FIRST EARL OF SHEFFIELD NORTH PEVENSEY LEGION

Papers relating to the North Pevensey Legion raised by Lord Sheffield in 1803 to protect the county in case of an attack from the coast by Napoleonic forces; correspondence, the roll of Major Sheffield's company for October 1803 [The rolls list the names of the men, their occupations, their approximate age and family responsibilities and 'remarks' which note a willingness to serve, physical incapacity], details of the uniform. [ACC 2714]


PEDIGREES AND PORTRAITS

Holroyd entry from 'Peerages & Baronages, 1881'; family tree of Lord Sheffield from Collins 'Peerage of England',1812; pedigree of the Wey Family; pedigree of the Hill Family; copy of Austin Holroyd's 'Holroyd/Sheffield Pedigree'; photocopies of Sheffield family portraits

SHEFFIELD MANOR COURT BOOK 1810-1922

Extracts court books 1810-1922 from the office of Lewis, Holman & Lawrence, solicitors, Lewes. F1


Translation of court books and rolls, 1565-1665 [SRL 14/1-3] and Tarring Peverell court roll for 1574; index to above

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Translation of court book 1666-1777 [AMS 6552/2] F1


Translation of court book 1777-1803 with index [ACC 8138] F1


Transcription of court book 1818-1922 [ACC 2533] F1

SHEFFIELD MANOR DEEDS Photocopy of the abstract of certain Sheffield deeds, writings and papers 1570-1670 made in 1728 for the Lady Ann Bergevenny; transcription of the lease of the mansion and lands, the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, to Richard Leche, Jun 1571 [SRL 1/2/2];transcription of the lease, the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, to Richard Leche, Jun 1578 of North Hall, The Hooke and “the decayed iron works called the decayed furnace of Sheffield” [SRL 1/2/1]; transcription of lease of North Hall in Fletching, Charles Howard of Sheffield and Charity, his wife, to David Middleton, Nov 1601 [ADD MS 2588]; transcription of the lease of North Hall in Fletching, Richard Earl of Dorset to Lord Howard of Effingham and Lady Charity, his wife, Dec 1617 [SRL 1/2/3]; transcription of lease of

Series Folder Description Locationthe mansion and lands, Lord Nottingham and the Earl of Dorset to John Wilson, gentleman, Mar 1619 [SRL 1/2/4 A & B]; transcription of lease of the mansion and lands, Lord Nottingham to William and Francis Wilson, sons of John Wilson [ADD MS 2591]; document relating to the creation of the Leche Charity, 26 Nov 1597, from records of the Baker-Holroyd Family donated by Joseph Michael Hallam, solicitor, Hallam & Co, Burgess Hill [ACC 9422/2/1

SHEFFIELD MANOR HISTORY The history of the manor from Domesday to the twentieth century taken from a variety of sources. Newspaper cutting 'A stately home steeped in history'; 'Sheffield Park' brochure written by Mr P J Radford, the then owner, containing a brief history of the house and photographs of the interior, paintings and portraits, 1978; 'The Story of Sheffield Park' edited by Hylda Rawlings from articles published in the Danehill Parish Historical Society Magazine written by Mrs M Holt, Mr R Tibble, Mrs H M Rawlings and Mr D S Rawlings, 1992; 'A Chronicle of Sheffield Park' a short history of the house and gardens edited by Mrs Hylda Rawlings; Arundel Estates (Southern) Ltd sales brochure for the courtyard development at Sheffield Park showing the floor plan and elevation of each of the various houses and layout of the courtyard; The National Trust Sheffield Park Garden Catalogue which contains a brief early history, information on the Earls of Sheffield and Humphry Repton at Sheffield Park, the Soames era planting, and photographs of the garden, 1994; photocopy of the 1549 inventory of Sheffield Manor House from Sussex Archaeological Collections Volume 13; manuscript copy of 'Owners and Occupiers of Sheffield Place' by Brian Phillips, 1984; manuscript copy of an article by M S Russell-Goggs from the Sussex County Magazine 1927 'Sheffield Park: A Beautiful Sussex House'; pencil sketch taken of a plan of Sheffield House now in ESRO [SPK/E112]; photostat copy of insurance policy for the buildings of Sheffield Place, 10 Oct 1814

SHEFFIELD MANOR PERAMBULATION Perambulation of the boundaries of the manor 1812 [SPK/M/1/3]

SHEFFIELD MANOR RENTAL 1596-1648 Extracts only from a document receipts for rent for the demesnes of the manor of Sheffield 1596-1648 which mentions licence from Christopher Nevill, knight, to demolish the gallery and stairs, long in decay, of the long old building adjoining the mansion house at Sheffield Place, and to rebuild several stairs for access to the chambers Jun 1637 [SRL 14/6

SHEFFIELD MANOR RENTAL 1731 Photostat copy and transcription of a rental of Sheffield Manor made 25 October 1731 [ACC 2751]

SHEFFIELD MANOR RENTAL 1810 Photostat copy of a Sheffield rental in the possession of Messrs Lewis & Holman, solicitors, based on, or similar to, the Buckhurst Terrier, April 1810

SHEFFIELD MANOR RENTAL 1833 Photocopy of a rental of the manor of Sheffield, 4 April 1833 [SRL 14/5]; from the archive of the Maryon-Wilson family of Searles

SHEFFIELD MANOR RENTAL1612 Photostat copy of a copy made in 1776 of an original manuscript in the British Library Harleain

Series Folder Description LocationCollection of a rental of copyhold tenants of Sheffield Manor c1612; transcription of the above

SHEFFIELD MANOR SURVEY 1558-1560 Part (Sheffield Manor only) of a survey of the manors, lands and tenements belonging to Sir Richard Sackville held in the Sackville Archive at the Centre for Kentish Studies [KAO U269 E341] and on microfilm at East Sussex Record Office [XA/4/1] The survey was produced in the Exchequer in the suite of Hutchins against Mitchell and Mitchell against Lord Whitworth.

SHEFFIELD MANOR SURVEY 1565 Copy of a detailed survey of demesnes, freehold and copyhold tenements and commons of the Manor of Sheffield made in 1565 [SRL 14/4]; copy made c1840 as dated from watermark [AMS 2892]


Extracts court book 1924-1937 [ACC 2533] F1

SHEFFIELD MANOR RENTALS 1910 and 1937

Extracts only from a 1910 Rental and 1937 Rental of the manor of Sheffield from manorial records of the manor of Sheffield in Fletching 1775-1937 on microfilm [XA/80/2]

SHEFFIELD PARK FAMILY PAPERS

LADY ANNE BERGAVENNY

Calendar of documents relating to Lady Anne Bergavenny's Sheffield estates 1726-1736 [SPK/E1/4*]

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WEST HOATHLY WEST HOATHLY List of West Hoathly fields from the Tithe Apportionment Award of 1841. List of the holdings named on the Tithe Map Apportionment 1841. with acreages, owners and occupiers. Typescript copy of the perambulation of West Hoathly Parish Boundary, 1749 [Parish Record 379/7/8]

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