Publications
The Ashburnham Estate Brickworks 1840-1968, by Kim Leslie, published December 1970 in Sussex Industrial History (No. 1, article, pp.2-22) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/1] & The Keep [LIB/506524] Download PDF
Abstract:The Ashburnham Estate brickworks, which ceased production in November 1968, is situated a quarter mile NW. of Ashburnham Forge, (National Grid reference TQ684161), the property, until July 1970, of the Reverend J.D. Bickersteth, a great grandson of the fourth Earl of Ashburnham. The Ashburnham estate also formerly owned works for two other important extractive industries. In 1808 the Reverend Arthur Young noted that the limestone mine and works in Dallington Forest achieved for the second Earl the distinction of being 'the greatest lime-burner in all the kingdom'. Better known is that the family had its own iron workings, the Ashburnham furnace and forge being the last of the Wealden iron works to operate in the early nineteenth century. The factor shared by these three estate industries is that they were all based on wood fuel.
Although on a more limited scale of production than either of the other two works, the brickworks possessed some outstanding features. In Sussex it was the last of the small rural works of its type to operate, probably being one of the most primitive commercial undertakings to survive in the county into the 1960s. Even in the country as a whole it was a survival of a method of production rarely, if ever, seen today. Brickmaking was by hand, by methods that have been passed from generation to generation. Perhaps more unusual than this was that the bricks were burnt in an open kiln fired with wood. Until 1961, when tiles were last made at the yard, a pug mill for grinding the clay was driven by a horse. This mill is the last recorded instance of a stationary horse engine (a horse gin) to have worked in Sussex. In other words, until its recent closure, the Ashburnharn brickworks continued to demonstrate the state of brickmaking as it was before the brickmaking revolution of the nineteenth century. Indeed the methods and equipment employed at Ashburnham have remarkable resemblances to those evident in some of the earliest known illustrations and descriptions of the industry.
Although on a more limited scale of production than either of the other two works, the brickworks possessed some outstanding features. In Sussex it was the last of the small rural works of its type to operate, probably being one of the most primitive commercial undertakings to survive in the county into the 1960s. Even in the country as a whole it was a survival of a method of production rarely, if ever, seen today. Brickmaking was by hand, by methods that have been passed from generation to generation. Perhaps more unusual than this was that the bricks were burnt in an open kiln fired with wood. Until 1961, when tiles were last made at the yard, a pug mill for grinding the clay was driven by a horse. This mill is the last recorded instance of a stationary horse engine (a horse gin) to have worked in Sussex. In other words, until its recent closure, the Ashburnharn brickworks continued to demonstrate the state of brickmaking as it was before the brickmaking revolution of the nineteenth century. Indeed the methods and equipment employed at Ashburnham have remarkable resemblances to those evident in some of the earliest known illustrations and descriptions of the industry.
Local History in West Sussex. A Guide to Sources, by Kim C. Leslie and Timothy J McCann, published 1971 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5655] & West Sussex Libraries
Old Shoreham Toll Bridge, A Souvenir, by Kim Leslie, published 1972 (Eastbourne: E. Phillips) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Midhurst Grammar School Tercentenary 1672-1972, by Kim C. Leslie, published 1972 (Midhurst Grammar School) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Weald and Downland Open Air Museum. Handbook for School Teachers, by Kim C. Leslie, published 1972 (pamphlet, Weald & Downland Open Air Museum) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5954] & West Sussex Libraries
Weald and Downland Open Air Museum: A Guide Book for Children, by Kim C. Leslie, published 1973 (pamphlet, Phillimore) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5034][Lib 12665] & West Sussex Libraries
Prints from the Past. Set 1: 19th Century Posters, by Kim C. Leslie, published 1974 (Chichester: West Sussex County Council) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Local History in West Sussex, A Guide to Sources, by Kim C. Leslie and Timothy J. McCann, published 1975 (Chichester: West Sussex County Council, ISBN-10: 0900801379 & ISBN-13: 9780900801372) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6134] & The Keep [LIB/501906] & West Sussex Libraries
Weald and Downland Open Air Museum: A Guide Book for Children, by Kim C. Leslie, published 1976 (3rd edition, 23 pp., The Museum, ISBN-10: 0905259025 & ISBN-13: 9780905259024) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6226] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries
Local History through Documents: Part I Tithe Maps, by Kim C. Leslie, published September 1978 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 11, article, p.7) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/11] & The Keep [LIB/500479]
Local History through Documents: Part II Probate Inventories, by Kim C. Leslie, published January 1979 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 12, article, p.12) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/12] & The Keep [LIB/500479]
Local History through Documents: Part III Census Returns, by Kim C. Leslie, published September 1979 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 14, article, p.12) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/14] & The Keep [LIB/500479]
Local History through Documents: Part IV Deposited Plans, by Kim C. Leslie, published May 1980 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 16, article, p.9) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/16] & The Keep [LIB/500479]
Local History through Documents: Part V Parish Registers, Part 1, by Kim C. Leslie, published January 1982 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 21, article, p.11) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/21] & The Keep [LIB/500480]
Local History through Documents: Part V Parish Registers, Part 2, by Kim C. Leslie, published May 1982 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 22, article, p.24) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/22] & The Keep [LIB/500480]
Local History through Documents: Part V Parish Registers, Part 3, by Kim C. Leslie, published September 1982 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 23, article, p.21) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/23] & The Keep [LIB/500480]
A great fight near Chichester, by Kim Leslie, published January 1984 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 27, article, p.23) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/27] & The Keep [LIB/500480]
Highwaymen of North Heath, by Kim C. Leslie, published May 1984 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 28, article, p.29) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/28] & The Keep [LIB/500481]
Local history through documents, Part 6: Churchwardens' accounts, by Kim C. Leslie, published September 1984 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 29, article, p.16) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/29] & The Keep [LIB/500481]
Local History through Documents Part 6: Churchwardens' accounts (continued), by Kim C. Leslie, published January 1985 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 30, article, p.27) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/30] & The Keep [LIB/500481]
BBC Domesday Project in West Sussex, by Kim C. Leslie, published 1986 (pamphlet, BBC) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9659] & West Sussex Libraries
Local history through documents, Part 6: Churchwardens' accounts (continued), by Kim C. Leslie, published January 1986 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 33, article, p.1) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/33] & The Keep [LIB/500481]
West Sussex County Council : The First 100, by John Godfrey, Kim C. Leslie and Diana Zeuner, published 1988 (Chichester: West Sussex County Council, ISBN-10: 0862601592 & ISBN-13: 9780862601591) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
The Australian Bicentennial 1788-1988: Sussex, Australia and the first fleet, by Kim C. Leslie, published May 1988 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 40, article, p.1) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/40] & The Keep [LIB/500482]
Scholars and Slates: Sussex Schools in the 1880s, by Steve Johnson and Kim Leslie, published 1989 (pamphlet, 83 pp., Chichester: West Sussex County Council, ISBN-10: 0862601673 & ISBN-13: 9780862601676) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10190] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
The Great War: illustrated by documents from West Sussex Record Office, by Steve Johnson and Kim Leslie, published 1989 (booklet, Chichester: West Sussex County Council, ISBN-13: 9780862601478) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10532][Lib 16495] & West Sussex Libraries
Weald and Downland Open Air Museum 1965-1970: The Founding Years, by Kim C. Leslie, published 1990 (pamphlet, 24 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0905259173 & ISBN-13: 9780905259178) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10789] & West Sussex Libraries
Victorian Census 1801-1891, by Kim Leslie, published 1991 (Chichester: West Sussex County Council) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Brick and Tile-Making at Ashburnham, Sussex, by Kim Leslie and Jack Harmer, published 1991 (32 pp + 6 plates, Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, ISBN-10: 090525919X & ISBN-13: 9780905259192) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Originally published in 'Sussex Industrial History' No. 1 (1970-1) and 'Sussex Industrial History' No. 11 (1981)
Hilaire Belloc 1870-1953, Notes of a Lifetime , by Kim Leslie, published 1993 (spiral bound) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
D-Day West Sussex: Springboard for the Normandy Landings, by Ian Greig, Kim C. Leslie and Alan Readman, published 1994 (115 pp., Chichester: West Sussex County Council, ISBN-10: 0862602912 & ISBN-13: 9780862602918) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12187] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
West Sussex at War 1939-1945, by Kim C. Leslie and Alan Readman, published 1995 (pamphlet, Chichester: West Sussex County Council) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13095] & West Sussex Libraries
H. G. Wells in West Sussex, by Martin O'Neill, Kim Leslie and Martin Hayes, published February 1996 (pamphlet, 26 pp., Chichester: West Sussex County Council, ISBN-10: 0862603501 & ISBN-13: 9780862603502) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13121] & West Sussex Libraries
An Historical Atlas of Sussex , edited by Kim Leslie and Brian Short with maps by Susan Rowland, published 1 January 1999 (176 pp., Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, ISBN-10: 1860771122 & ISBN-13: 9781860771125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14026][Lib 18777] & The Keep [LIB/501686][Lib/508903] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:Published as part of the local Millennium celebrations, the Atlas presents the history of Sussex in a way never before attempted. Some seventy maps plot a huge diversity of subject matter ranging from prehistoric times to the present; from Saxon settlements through 17th-century inns and ale-houses to employment patterns and commuting to work in the late 20th century.
Sussex Defenses in the Second World War, by Kim Leslie and Martin Mace, published 1 January 1999 in An Historical Atlas of Sussex (pp.118-119, Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, ISBN-10: 1860771122 & ISBN-13: 9781860771125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14026][Lib 18777] & The Keep [LIB/501686][LIB/508903] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Mapping the Millennium: the West Sussex Millennium Parish Maps Project, by Kim C. Leslie, published 1 January 2001 (pamphlet, 24 pp., Chichester: West Sussex County Council, ISBN-10: 0862604893 & ISBN-13: 9780862604899) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14589] & West Sussex Libraries
West Sussex Parish Maps: A Sense of a Place, by Kim C. Leslie, published 1 November 2006 (224 pp., Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, ISBN-10: 0862605644 & ISBN-13: 9780862605643) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Sussex Tales of the Unexpected: Five Centuries of County Life, by Kim C. Leslie, published 20 October 2008 (242 pp., Chichester: West Sussex County Council, ISBN-10: 0862605776 & ISBN-13: 9780862605773) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500121] & West Sussex Libraries
Building History: Weald & Downland Open Air Museum 1970-2010 the First 40 Years, by Richard Harris, Kim C. Leslie, Carol Brinson and edited by Diana Zeuner, published 10 November 2010 (200 pp., Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, ISBN-10: 0905259300 & ISBN-13: 9780905259307) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries