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Bodiam Castle, Sussex: Did its builder also construct Dalygrigge's Bay divert the river Kennet and thereby concede about 15 acres of Sussex land to Kent?, by F. C. Clark, published 1955 (24 pp., Cranbrook: Ceylon House) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502453] & East Sussex Libraries

This centres round the Royal Permission of the 3rd February, 1385/6 for Sir Edward Dalyngregge to divert a watercourse from "Dalyngreggesbay" in Salehurst to his mill in Bodyham by bringing it to the mill by an ancient dyke in his own ground (see Calendar of Patent Rolls, p. 98). The book is an interesting study of the locality and is very well illustrated with pertinent photographs. The Author's identification of this mill with Bodiam Mill on the Kent Ditch can be accepted as established - it could hardly have been at Bodiam Castle, which is described as by the Sea in the contemporary licence to crenellate; but it may well be doubted if any alteration in the county boundary resulted from the grant. Such boundaries were then well established and did not shift if a stream changed its course (cf : the numerous instances on the Arun, where the river and the parish boundaries do not coincide though the discrepancy is small). The new course is described as an ancient dyke and may well have been a side stream already existing - at all events the Bay where it started was in Salehurst, which is Sussex.