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A Graphic and Historical Sketch of Bodyam Castle, in Sussex, by William Cotton, published 1831 (30 pp., London: Samuel Bentley) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503759] & East Sussex Libraries

Parish of Bodiam, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. I, rape of Hastings, pp.520-524) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2396][Lib 3211] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500087] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Bodiam and its Lords, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1857 (London: John Russell Smith) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Bodiam and its Lords, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., F.S.A., published 1857 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 9, article, pp.275-302) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2094] & The Keep [LIB/500228] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Notices of Sir Edward Dalyngruge, the Builder of Bodiam Castle, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., F.S.A., published 1860 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 12, article, pp.221-231) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2097] & The Keep [LIB/500231] & S.A.S. library   View Online

On Bodiam Manor and Castle, by J. C. Savery, published December 1868 in Journal of the British Archaeological Association (first series, vol 24, issue 4, article, pp.353-360)   View Online

Bodiam, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. I, pp.57-60, Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3314] & The Keep [LIB/500159]   View Online

Bodiam and its Lords, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1871 (new edition, London: John Russell Smith) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Ordnance Survey Book of Reference to the plan of the Parish of Bodiam, published 1872 (article, London: H.M.S.O. & printed at George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)   View Online

Bodiam Castle, historic and descriptive, by F. Gorham Ticehurst, published 1886 (50 pp., Battle: Ticehaurst & Co.) accessible at: British Library

Extract from the Will of Sir William Wetherden, Vicar of Bodiam, AD 1513, by Rev. B Belcher, published 1892 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 38, notes & queries, pp.196-197) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2123] & The Keep [LIB/500256] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Bodiam Castle, by Harold Sands, M.I.M.E., published 1903 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 46, article, pp.114-133) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2131] & The Keep [LIB/500264] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The history of Bodiam, its ancient manor, church, and castle, by Theodore Johnson, published 1912 (52 pp., published by the author) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & East Sussex Libraries

Bodiam Castle, the property of Lord Ashcombe, by Martin Conway, published 27 June 1914 in Country Life (vol. 35 no. 912, article, pp.950-956)

Bodiam Castle, Sussex: A Historical and Descriptive Survey, by G. N. Curzon, published 1926 (xiv + 164 pp. & 32 leaves of plates, London: Jonathan Cape) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503762] & R.I.B.A. Library & East Sussex Libraries

A Bodiam Charter, 1330, by S.N.Q. contributor, published February 1929 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. II no. 5, note, pp.159-160) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8951] & The Keep [LIB/500204] & S.A.S. library

Bodiam Castle, by Kenneth Saville, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 9, article, pp.776-780) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500173]

The Moated Homestead, Church, and Castle of Bodiam, by W. Douglas Simpson, M.A., D.Litt., F.S.A. Scot., published 1931 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 72, article, pp.69-99) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2157] & The Keep [LIB/500357] & S.A.S. library

A Tour into Sussex, 1788, continued, by Hon. John Byng, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 2, article, pp.115-120) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

The Medieval Pottery at Bodiam Castle, by J. N. L. Myres, published 1935 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 76, article, pp.223-230) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2161] & The Keep [LIB/500353] & S.A.S. library

Little Horses from the North: A Visit to Lady Hope's Shetlands at Bodiam, by H. G. Beddington, published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 6, article, pp.351-353) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500179]

Cinerary Urn found at Bodiam, by Hugh Whistler, published February 1940 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VIII no. 1, note, p.25) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8865][Lib 2207] & The Keep [LIB/500210] & S.A.S. library

Castles from the air: Castle Rising, Dover, Arundel, Carnarvon, Bodiarn, Herstmonceux, Deal, Hever, published 11 July 1947 in Country Life (article, pp.72-75) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library

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.

Bodiam Bridge Date Stone, by G. D. J. [G. D. Johnston], published November 1957 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 15 & 16, note, p.280) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

The Romano-British Site at Bodiam Station, by Col. J. Darrell Hill, published November 1960 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XV no. 6, article, pp.190-192) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8233] & The Keep [LIB/500217] & S.A.S. library

The Roman Road near Bodiam Station, by G. M. Puckle, published November 1960 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XV no. 6, note, pp.206-207) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8233] & The Keep [LIB/500217] & S.A.S. library

Sir Stephen Glynne's Notes on Churches, by the late V. J. Torr, published May 1965 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 5, article, pp.162-166) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

The Romano-British Site at Bodiam, by Charles H. Lemmon and J. Darrell Hill, published 1966 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 104, article, pp.88-102) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2189] & The Keep [LIB/500325] & S.A.S. library

Excavations 1970: Bodiam Castle, by David Martin, published March 1971 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 2, article, p.3) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Excavations 1970: Bodiam Moated Homestead, by David Martin, published March 1971 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 2, article, p.3) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Bodiam Castle medieval bridges, by David Martin, published 1973 (Hastings Area Archaeological Papers no. 1, 22 pp., Robertsbridge and District Archaeological Society) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & East Sussex Libraries

Bodiam Castle, by Catherine Morton, published 1979 (24 pp., The National Trust) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/501796] & East Sussex Libraries

East Sussex Census 1851 Index: Salehurst (including Robertsbridge & Hurst Green), Bodiam & Wadhurst, by June C. Barnes, published May 1988 (vol. 12, booklet, 80 pp., C. J. Barnes & printed at Battle Instant Print Ltd., ISBN-13: 9781870264075) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11241] & The Keep [LIB/503433] & East Sussex Libraries

Three Moated Sites in North-East Sussex Part 2. Hawksden and Bodiam, by David Martin, published 1990 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 128, article, pp.89-116) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11106] & The Keep [LIB/500301] & S.A.S. library

Fairfield Folk at Bodiam and Rudgwick Fairs, 1841, by John Bleach, published 1990 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 128, historical note, pp.266-270) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11106] & The Keep [LIB/500301] & S.A.S. library

Bodiam - Land Tax 1785, edited by Roger Davey, published 1991 in East Sussex Land Tax, 1785 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 77, p.23, ISBN-10: 0854450386 & ISBN-13: 9780854450381) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11681][Lib 13075] & The Keep [LIB/500454][Lib/507860] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Bodiam Castle, by David Thackray, published 1 January 1991 (63 pp., National Trust, ISBN-10: 1843590905 & ISBN-13: 9781843590903) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & East Sussex Libraries

Dallingridges's Bay and Bodiam Castle Millpond - Elements of a Medieval Landscape, by Christopher Whittick, published 1993 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 131, article, pp.119-123) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12210] & The Keep [LIB/500300] & S.A.S. library

Bodiam Castle, by Nigel Saul, published January 1995 in History Today (vol. 45, issue 1, article)   View Online

Nigel Saul examines the social aspirations of a fourteenth-century Sussex castle and the man who built it.
Bodiam castle in Sussex was the creation of one combative egotist, and it owes its preservation to another. The builder of Bodiam was an ambitious retired war veteran and future councillor of Richard II, Sir Edward Dallingridge. Its saviour five-and-a-half centuries later was that 'most superior person', the Marquess Curzon of Kedkston, Foreign Secretary and one-time viceroy of India.
Sir Edward Dallingridge's castle ? graceful, noble and proud ? appears the very epitome of the medieval stronghold. Essentially it consists of a single oblong-shaped courtyard rising from a broad moat. All the domestic and garrison accommodation is disposed around the four walls of the interior. In the west range are the servants' hall and kitchen, in the south the main hall and service rooms, and in the east the chapel and the private chambers of the lord and lady. Defensive panoply is concentrated in the four cylindrical corner towers and, above all, on the great gateway on the north side.

Bodiam Castle, East Sussex: castle and its designed landscape, by Paul Everson, published 1996 in Chateau Gaillard (vol. 17, article, pp.79-84)

Bodiam Castle, East Sussex: a fourteenth-century designed landscape, by Paul Everson, published 18 April 1996 in The Remains of Distant Times: Archaeology and the National Trust (edited by David Morgan Evans, Peter Salway and David Thackray, Chapter 9, pp.66-72, The Boydell Press, ISBN-10: 0851156711 & ISBN-13: 9780851156712)

To me the past is sacred [Bodiam], by Jeremy Musson, published 8 January 1998 in Country Life (vol. 192 no. 2, article, pp.34-37)

The Battle for Bodiam Castle. Was Bodiam England's last real castle, by John Goodall, published 16 April 1998 in Country Life (vol. 192 no. 16, article, pp.58-63) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502460]

A section through the moat bank at Bodiam Castle, by Simon Stevens, published 1999 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 137, shorter article, pp.182-183) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14439] & The Keep [LIB/500291] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Bodiam, Brede and Udimore A - Z Directory 1885: Private and Commercial Premises, by R. A. Longley, published 1 July 2007 (8 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 1905585802 & ISBN-13: 9781905585809) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Bodiam, St. Giles - Church monuments, edited by Nigel Llewellyn, published 2011 in East Sussex Church Monuments, 1530-1830 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 93, pp.39-40, ISBN-10: 0854450750 & ISBN-13: 9780854450756) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17926] & The Keep [LIB/500470][LIB/507876] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Grave stuff: litigation with a London tomb-maker in 1421, by Nigel Saul, Jonathan Mackman and Christopher Whittick, published 2011 in Historical Research (vol. 84, no. 226, article, pp.572-585)

The recent A.H.R.C.-funded project on 'Londoners and the law' has brought to light a case in the court of common pleas in which the executors of Sir John Dallingridge of Bodiam (d. 1408) sued a London mason, John Petit, for failure to deliver to their satisfaction a tomb monument commemorating the deceased knight. The greater part of the contract for the monument was rehearsed in the pleadings, and as a result valuable light is shed on the expectations of patrons and the workings of the market in tomb monuments. Today, at Bodiam castle there survives a mutilated fragment of an alabaster torso which, on the evidence of the heraldry, must have formed part of a tomb monument to Sir John Dallingridge. It is suggested that this alabaster effigy is the product of a different commission from the one given to Petit, and that after Petit's dismissal Dallingridge's executors went to a Midlands firm in search of a suitable replacement.

Roman road at Bodiam - revised alignment, by Kevin Cornwell, Lynn Cornwell and David Padgham, published 2012 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 150, short article, pp.210-212) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18615] & The Keep [LIB/500368] & S.A.S. library   View Online

5. what do medieval buildings mean?, by Matthew H. Johnson, published 2013 in History and Theory (vol. 52, no. 3, article, pp.380-399)

The aim of this article is to review and reconsider what scholars, including historians, archaeologists, and those in other disciplines, are trying to get at when they attempt a ?social interpretation? of English late medieval domestic buildings. I focus on the definition and interpretation of ?meaning,? and I examine critically a series of concepts routinely deployed in social interpretations in the past, including my own work, such as type, zeitgeist, and intention. I argue that some of these concepts and interpretive moves are problematic and rather than aiding in our understanding, raise further questions in their turn about how buildings were lived in and understood by their medieval inhabitants. I argue for a shift in language and jargon away from ?planning? and ?meaning? to that of ?lived experience?. I explore such a possible shift with reference to different understandings of and debates over the late medieval castle of Bodiam in southeastern England. Such a shift from meaning to lived experience raises fresh challenges for the development and empirical evaluation of interdisciplinary research on medieval buildings, but it also raises fresh possibilities and insights.

Bodiam Castle, Robertsbridge, East Sussex: Conservation Management Plan for the National Trust, by Drury McPherson Partnership, published June 2016 accessible at: The Keep [LIB/509257][Lib/509258][Lib/509259]

Some analysis of the Castle of Bodiam, East Sussex, by Charles Coulson, published 18 November 2016 in Late Medieval Castles (edited by Robert Liddiard, pp.241-302, Boydell & Brewer, ISBN-10: 1783270330 & ISBN-13: 9781783270330)

Lived Experience in the Later Middle Ages: studies of Bodiam and other elite landscapes in South-Eastrn England, edited by Matthew Johnson, published 31 January 2017 (300 pp., The Highfield Press, ISBN-10: 0992633664 & ISBN-13: 9780992633660)

1841 Census vol.15 - Wadhurst, Salehurst and Bodiam, published (no date) by PBN Publications (Ref: BPCQ, CD-ROM)