Publications
Lime-burning in West Sussex, and the Newbridge Wharf Limekilns, Billingshurst, by Jim Williams, published 2004 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 142, article, pp.115-125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15489] & The Keep [LIB/500360] & S.A.S. library View Online
Abstract:Documentary research and excavations have indicated that a block of four limekilns which operated alongside the Arun Navigation at Newbridge Wharf, Billingshurst, from before 1823 until about 1890, were of the intermittent or flare type. During the spring and summer 1998, excavations took place at Newbridge Wharf, Billingshurst, at the site of a set of limekilns, by the side of the Arun Navigation, to ascertain the extent to which evidence of the kilns and their construction still remained, buried beneath the surface. The remains of three kilns were found. They are typical of the type of kilns that were designed to produce lime for dressing agricultural land in that part of the Weald at that time, and were served by the canal which had opened as far as Newbridge Wharf in 1787 and went out of use in 1888.