Publications
Executorship: a sinecure?, by John Townsend, published April 1992 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 49, article, p.7) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/49] & The Keep [LIB/500483]
A Disputed Tree, by John Townsend, published October 1994 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 54, article, p.21) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/54] & The Keep [LIB/500483]
Ward's Land, by John Townsend, published June 1995 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 6, article, p.208) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The first recorded owner of an inn called the Donkey's Castle was John Ward of Ashurst, yeoman, in 1710.
Shoreham-by-Sea in 1915, by John Townsend, published April 1999 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 63, article, p.25) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/63] & The Keep [LIB/500487]
The Powlett Monument, West Grinstead, by John Townsend, published September 2000 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 14 no. 3, article, p.99) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14881] & The Keep [LIB/508823] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Memorial at West Grinstead Parish Church to William Powlett and his wife Elizabeth Ward who had married at Eartham in 1728
Bergen-op-Zoom, by John Townsend, published Spring 2000 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 65, article, p.32) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/65] & The Keep [LIB/500489]
Some Sussex navvies, by John Townsend, published September 2002 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 15 no. 3, article, pp.118-119) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15249] & The Keep [LIB/508827] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The construction of the railway between Shoreham and Itchingfield Junction was in progress when the 1861 census was taken and from these returns a list has been provided listing the details of the navvies, carpenters, blacksmiths and other craftsmen who came to work on the line.
The Men who Built the Steyning Line, by John Townsend, published Spring 2003 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 71, article, p.35) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/71] & The Keep [LIB/500495]
Where was he settled?, by John Townsend, published March 2005 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 16 no. 5, article, p.216) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508838] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:The case of William Belchamber in 1722/3