Publications
Juvenile Researches, or a Description of some of the principal towns, in the West of Sussex, and the borders of Hants, the whole being interspersed with various pieces of poetry by a Sister, by Howard Dudley, published 1835 (2nd edition, vii + 126 + vii pp., printed, and composed by H Dudley aged 15) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3268] & West Sussex Libraries
The History and Antiquities of Horsham, by Howard Dudley, published 1836 (reprinted in 2002 by Country Books, 112 pp., ISBN-10: 1898941726 & ISBN-13: 9781898941729) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4251] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries View Online
Abstract:The reprint is a facsimile of one of the rarest topographical books on Sussex, first published in 1836 by a sixteen-year-old schoolboy. Illustrated with lithographs and wood engravings, the book covers the market town of Horsham and the surrounding villages of Rusper, Warnham, Roffy, Nuthurst, Itchingfield, Slinfold and Rudgwick. The contents include: the parish church, the county gaol, the Independent's chapel, the Wesleyan chapel, Collier's School, the National School, the Royal British Schools, the great houses and estates, the dragon in St Leonard's Forest, a list of Horsham inns, details of coaches, plants found in the area, fossils, population, roads, Horsham fairs, etc