Bibliography - Brede, Rother District, East Sussex
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Parish of Brede, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. I, rape of Hastings, pp.512-515) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2396][Lib 3211] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500087] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Oxenbridges of Brede Place, Sussex, and Boston, Massachusetts, by W. Durrant Cooper, F.S.A., published 1860 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 12, article, pp.203-220) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2097] & The Keep [LIB/500231] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Leonard's Furnace, Brede, by Unknown Author(s), published 1860 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 12, notes & queries, p.270) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2097] & The Keep [LIB/500231] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Brede, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. I, pp.74-76, Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3314] & The Keep [LIB/500159]   View Online

Ordnance Survey Book of Reference to the plan of the Parish of Brede, published 1874 (article, London: H.M.S.O. & printed at George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)   View Online

Brede Place, by Country Life contributor(s), published 3 November 1906 in Country Life (article) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9154]

A History of Brickwall in Sussex and of the Parishes of Northiam and Brede, by A. L. Frewen, published 1909 (London: George Allen & Sons) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503761]

The Old House at Broad Oak, Brede, by Edmund Austen, published 1925 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 66, article, pp.136-147) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2151] & The Keep [LIB/500284] & S.A.S. library

Historic Houses of Sussex - Brede Place, by Viscountess Wolseley, published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 10, article, pp.671-676) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500140]

Sheila Kay-Smith's Sussex Home, by S.C.M. Contributor(s), published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 10, article, p.845) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500173]

A guide to Brede Church, by G. E. Frewer, published 1931 (4th revised edition, 27 pp., Rye: Deacons) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Sussex and the U.S.A., 2nd series. 5 - Brede Place, Sussex and America, by David McLean and Shane Leslie, published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 7, article, pp.488-493; no. 8, pp.540-544) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

The Farm Labourers' Distress 1830-5, and the "Mobbing Winter" of 1830. 2 - The Mob at Brede and Events Elsewhere, by William Albery, published 1937 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XI no. 2, article, pp.103-109) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2316][Lib 9332] & The Keep [LIB/500182]

Brede: the Story of a Sussex Parish, by E. Austen, published 1946 (144 pp., Rye: Adams & Son) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503760] & British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Mr. Austen's love of Sussex and infinite understanding of our way of living need no advertisement. We can be happy that he has consented to put a little of his lore in book form for us and succeeding generations at a time when the shortage of paper and the costs of production might well have daunted a less valiant worker.
This is a book of twelve dozen pages, including an adequate, but by no means comprehensive, index, and if at times amongst its twenty chapters, which vary from the studiously learned on the descent of the manor to the racy idiom of dialect and humour, one sighs for more, it is at the least an indication of the ability of the author to hold one's attention, in writing as in talking.
One could wish for a more detailed illustration of the church, for some attempt at dating the altar tomb in the Oxenbridge chapel, and some reason for the strange removal of the brass to Robert Oxenbregg and his wife Ann [Hawkins] from its slab on to the wall, the slab being in a position by the altar that precluded ordinary wear and tear. Similarly fewer and larger illustrations of Brede Place seem desirable, and, most of all, one needs a map of the parish, with its field names thereon.
But these omissions passed, there are two admirable and (for parish histories) unusual chapters on Poor Law Administration and Highway Accounts, while throughout the book are interspersed intimate notes (that "the iron gate in front of my house at The Twitten was made at the smithy in 1833," or that the local cure for deafness and snake bite was adder's oil) and anecdotes like the stockman's remark to the corpulent gentleman: "Hello, Mr. B , how unevenly you have fatted!"
No information, it would seem, can come amiss to Mr. Austen, and so he has produced a very real, if unconventional, history of the complete parish of Brede.

Sussex Church Plans LXXIX: Parish Church of St. George, Brede, by W. H. G. [W. H. Godfrey], published May 1947 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XI no. 6, article, pp.123-124) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8229][Lib 2210] & The Keep [LIB/500213] & S.A.S. library

An illustrated guide to the Church of Saint George's, Brede, by Percy William Hill, published 1964 (W. H. Smith)

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

Ferries in Sussex, continued, by G. D. Johnston, published May 1967 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 9, article, pp.305-311) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

The guidebook to the Church of Saint George's, Brede, by Percy William Hill, published 1 January 1975 (3rd edition, 100 pp., Adams Ltd., ISBN-10: 0950410306 & ISBN-13: 9780950410302) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Sussex Family Homes 1. Brede Place and the Oxenbridges, published September 1975 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 2 no. 2, article, pp.52-53) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7966] & The Keep [LIB/501254] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The Flandrian vegetational history and environmental development of the Brede and Pannel valleys, East Sussex , by Martin Waller, 1987 at University of East London (Ph.D. thesis)   View Online

This study examines the Flandrian development, particularly the vegetational history, of two valleys in the East Sussex Weald, the Brede and Pannel. Lithostratigraphic surveys of these valleys and biostratigraphic investigations from a number of key sites, principally using the technique of pollen analysi, have been undertaken. Radiocarbon dates provide a chronological framework. In the lower Brede valley pre-Flandrian colluvial deposits are overlain by estuarine sediments and a thin intermittent peat. Widespread peat formation began c.6000 BP., when alder fen woodland became established on the floodplain. Estuarine conditions returned after c.1800 B.P. The sedimentary history of the Pannel appears to be similar, although the deposits at.Paünel Bridge are unusual. Here 1 2.5m of organic material has accumulated since the beginning of the Flandrian. Comparisons are made with other coastal localities in East Sussex in order to determine the importance of local, against regional processes, in the formation of these sequences. At Pannel Bridge the pollen record extends back to 10000 B.P. when the vegetation was dominated by Pinus. Macrofossils remains of Alnus glutinosa were found indicating the presence of this species at the opening of the Flandrian. Corylus was the first of the deciduous taxa to expand (c.9400 B.P.) , followed by Quercus and tjlrnus (c.9000 B.P.). Tilia became an important component of the vegetation after c.7000 B.P. The nature of' the mid-Flandrian forests has been examined in some detail in the Brede valley. At Old Place investigations were undertaken to elucidate the pattern of pollen distribution across the floodplain. Sites close to the valley sides contain particularly high frequencies of Tilia pollen, indicating Tilia was abundant in the adjacent slope woodland. Limited interference by man on the vegetation may have occurred prior to, and accompanying the 'elm decline'. However, there is no evidence to suggest major episodes of forest clearance prior to the declines in Tilia dated to c.3700 B.P. This study highlights some of the problems in interpreting pollen assemblages from deposits of rich-fen origin.

East Sussex Census 1851 Index: Peasmarsh, Beckley, Northiam, Brede, Udimore, Icklesham, Winchelsea., by June C Barnes, published March 1987 (vol. 2, booklet, 96 pp., C. J. Barnes & printed at Battle Instant Print Ltd., ISBN-10: 1870264010 & ISBN-13: 9781870264013) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11231] & The Keep [LIB/503431] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Late Madam Frewen of Brickwall, Her Book of Receipts: collected by herself and from her several friends AD 1750 or thereabouts [Northiam], by Mary Frewen, published 1988 accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502970]

Field Notes: Chitcombe Romano-British Ironworks, Brede, Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1988 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 8, article, pp.2-11, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560]   Download PDF

Religious Survey 1851 - Rye district, edited by John A. Vickers, published August 1990 in The Religious Census of Sussex 1851 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 75, pp.4-6, ISBN-10: 085445036X & ISBN-13: 9780854450367) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10578][Lib 13824] & The Keep [LIB/500452][LIB/507827] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Rye district incl. Playden, Iden, Peasmarsh, Beckley, Northiam, Brede, Udimore, Winchelsea & Icklesham

Brede - Land Tax 1785, edited by Roger Davey, published 1991 in East Sussex Land Tax, 1785 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 77, pp.25-27, 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

My Cousin, the Runaway Potter, by L. C. Rumens, published March 1993 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 10 no. 5, article, pp.171-172) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14877] & The Keep [LIB/501262] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Edward Rumens, potter, born 1788, was balloted for Militia in Brede but ran away. He is possibly the Edward Miller otherwise known as Edward Rumes who was committed at Lewes Quarter Sessions in 1814 and was transported to Australia.

The Saga of the Runaway Potter, by L. C. Rumens, published September 1995 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 7, article, pp.235-236) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

More developments on the story of Edward Rumens, potter, born 1788, was balloted for Militia in Brede but ran away. He is possibly the Edward Miller otherwise known as Edward Rumens who was committed at Lewes Quarter Sessions in 1814 and was transported to Australia.

Brede Emigrants, by Andrew Barnes, published September 1995 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 7, article, p.260) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A list of emigrants from Bred in 1838 giving surname, christian name, some maiden names, number of children, date of departure and destination.

Body Snatchers, by Andrew Barnes, published March 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 1, article, p.17) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/501165] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Extract from Brede, the Story of a Sussex Parish by Edmund Austen published in 1946

Thomas Weller, Potter of Brede, His Forebears and Descendants, by Dr. Raymond F. Walker, published June 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 2, article, pp.67-71) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508809] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Thomas Weller, owner of the Brede pottery, was the fourth son William Weller (1744-1812) and Mary Ashdown (1750-1829). Article covers the Weller family for the years 1744 - 1890 in the parishes of Salehurst and Westfield.

Thomas Weller, Potter of Brede, His Forebears and Descendants: Part Two - The Wellers in Brede, by Dr. Raymond F. Walker, published September 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 3, article, pp.114-118) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508810] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Thomas Weller (1777-1846) married Mary Rumens Richardson (c.1781-1816) in 1797 and then Charlotte Austen (c.1790-1877) in 1817. In total he had 15 children.

Mary Rumens Richardson, by L. C. Rumens, published December 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 4, article, p.133) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508811] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Discussion over who Thomas Weller married.

Mary Rumens Richardson, by E. M. FitzJames, published December 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 4, article, pp.133-134) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508811] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Discussion over who Thomas Weller married.

Thomas Weller, Potter of Brede, His Forebears and Descendants: Part Three - The Wellers in Ohio, by Dr. Raymond F. Walker, published December 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 4, article, pp.155-158) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508811] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Thomas Weller (1777-1846) married Mary Rumens Richardson (c.1781-1816) in 1797 and then Charlotte Austen (c.1790-1877) in 1817. In total he had 15 children.

Thomas Weller, Potter of Brede, His Forebears and Descendants: Part Four - The Wellers in Ohio, continued, by Dr. Raymond F. Walker, published March 1997 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 5, article, pp.182-184) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508812] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Thomas Weller (1777-1846) married Mary Rumens Richardson (c.1781-1816) in 1797 and then Charlotte Austen (c.1790-1877) in 1817. In total he had 15 children.

Thomas Weller, Potter of Brede, His Forebears and Descendants: Part Five - The Wellers in Ohio, continued, by Dr. Raymond F. Walker, published June 1997 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 6, article, pp.236-239) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508813] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Thomas Weller (1777-1846) married Mary Rumens Richardson (c.1781-1816) in 1797 and then Charlotte Austen (c.1790-1877) in 1817. In total he had 15 children.

Thomas Weller, Potter of Brede, His Forebears and Descendants: Part Six - The Wellers in Ohio, continued, by Dr. Raymond F. Walker, published September 1997 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 7, article, pp.274-278) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508814] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Thomas Weller (1777-1846) married Mary Rumens Richardson (c.1781-1816) in 1797 and then Charlotte Austen (c.1790-1877) in 1817. In total he had 15 children.

Thomas Weller, Potter of Brede, His Forebears and Descendants: Part Seven - The Wellers in Ohio, continued, by Dr. Raymond F. Walker, published December 1997 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 8, article, pp.295-298) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508815] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Thomas Weller (1777-1846) married Mary Rumens Richardson (c.1781-1816) in 1797 and then Charlotte Austen (c.1790-1877) in 1817. In total he had 15 children.

Brede - 18c. Schools, edited by John Caffyn, published 1998 in Sussex Schools in the 18th Century (Sussex Record Society, vol. 81, p.52, ISBN-10: 0854450424 & ISBN-13: 9780854450428) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13825][Lib 13828] & The Keep [LIB/500458][Lib/507864] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Brede Pottery, by L. C. Rumens, published June 1999 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 6, article, p.200) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/508821] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The Rumens association

Thomas Weller, potter of Brede, by Raymond F. Walker, published June 2002 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 15 no. 2, article, pp.66-73) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15249] & The Keep [LIB/508827] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

His forbears and descendants revisited - part 1

Thomas Weller, potter of Brede, by Raymond F. Walker, published September 2002 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 15 no. 3, article, pp.103-111) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15249] & The Keep [LIB/508827] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

His forebears and descendants revisited - part 2

Secret history, by Colin W. Field, published June 2004 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 16 no. 2, article, pp.73-75) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508835] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The 'fight for the parishes' between orthodoxy and innovation at Salehurst and Brede

The Labourer's Revolt, by Colin W. Field, published December 2005 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 16 no. 8, article, pp.382-383) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508841] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Mr Thomas Abell, assistant overseer at Brede, and his actions from 1829 to 1835 during the labourers' revolt

St. George's Church, Brede: Monumental Inscriptions, by R. A. Longley, published 1 September 2006 (22 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 1905585292 & ISBN-13: 9781905585298) accessible at: British Library

A Godly Chimney Plate and other Firebacks from Brede, by Jeremy Hodgkinson, published 2007 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 27, article, pp.18-26, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506574]   Download PDF

If the spirituality of a people were to have been measured by the designs they cast on their firebacks, the English, or at least those who lived and worked in the Weald, would have been regarded as a godless lot in the sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries. Before the influx of religious and classical fireback designs from the Low Countries, probably after the Restoration in 1660, English firebacks with religious subjects are rare.

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

Field Notes: A bloomery site in Brede, East Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2008 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 28, report, pp.2-8, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506575]   Download PDF

Brede Compilation: From Street Directories Between 1855-1938, by R. A. Longley, published 1 July 2008 (CD-ROM, published by the author, ISBN-10: 1906505454 & ISBN-13: 9781906505455) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Brede, St. George - Church monuments, edited by Nigel Llewellyn, published 2011 in East Sussex Church Monuments, 1530-1830 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 93, pp.41-43, 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

Field Notes: A Bloomery site in Brede, East Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2011 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 31, report, pp.3-8, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506578]   Download PDF

A busy year ahead on the 'Big Dig' at Brede High Woods, by Vivienne Blandford, published April 2013 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 129, article, p.7, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500475] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Brede High Woods 'Big Dig': Successful first year uncovers remains of farm buildings, by Vivienne Blandford, published April 2013 in Sussex Past & Present (no. 129, article, p.8, ISSN: 1357-7417) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500475] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Woodland Trust, which acquired Brede High Woods (6 miles north of Hastings, East Sussex, NGR TQ793201) in 2007, secured a 'Your Heritage' HLF grant of £50k to run a community archaeology project to help uncover more about the archaeology and history of this 262 hectare site. The grant runs from October 2011 to June 2014. Chris Butler Archaeological Services is leading the project on behalf of the Woodland Trust and we have successfully completed a rewarding first year of investigations during which we attracted over 100 volunteers, some of whom regularly turned up in what were, at times, truly appalling weather conditions.

Chitcombe Road, Broad Oak, Brede (NGR: TQ82431979) - evaluation report, by Teresa Vieira and Sean Wallis, published May 2015 (Reading: Thames Valley Archaeological Services)   View Online

Two bloomeries in Gilly Wood, Brede, East Sussex, published 2016 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 36 (Part I), report, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/509249]