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Parish of Buxted, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. I, rape of Pevensey, pp.365-368) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2396][Lib 3211] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500087] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

On Buxted Church, by Rev. Henry Rosehurst Hoare, published 1857 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 9, article, pp.208-222) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2094] & The Keep [LIB/500228] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Buxted Brasses, by W. S. Walford, published 1858 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 10, notes & queries, p.213) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2095] & The Keep [LIB/500229] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Rock Hermitages, by Edward Turner, published 1861 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 13, notes & queries, pp.305-305) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2098] & The Keep [LIB/500232] & S.A.S. library   View Online

George Watson, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (p.57) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

Anthony Saunders, D.D., by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.63-64) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

Forest Chapels: Gilderedge, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1868 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 20, notes & queries, p.231) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2105] & The Keep [LIB/507132] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Fictile Vessel found in Buxted Church, by Rev. Edward Turner, published 1869 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 21, article, pp.202-206) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2016] & The Keep [LIB/500239] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Buxted, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. I, pp.92-95, 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 Buxted, published 1875 (article, London: H.M.S.O. & printed at George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)   View Online

Brooker's Guide and Directory for Uckfield and District, containing Historical and Descriptive Accounts of Uckfield, Buxted, Framfield, Little Horsted, Isfield, Maresfield & Fletching, by J. Brooker, published 1888 (117 pp., Uckfield: J. Brooker) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries   View Online

The Rocks at Buxted, by C. Leeson Prince, published 1896 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 40, notes & queries, p.265) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2125] & The Keep [LIB/500258] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Uckfield and Buxted, by E. V. Lucas with illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs, published 1904 in Highways and Byways in Sussex (Chapter XXXI, London: Macmillan & Co.) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 41][Lib 12792][Lib 15825] & The Keep [LIB/500142]   View Online

Catalogues of Portraits at Compton Place, and at Buxted Park, in Sussex, by Cecil George Saville Foljambe, Lord Hawkesbury, F.S.A., published 1904 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 47, article, pp.82-108) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2132] & The Keep [LIB/500265] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Britellus Avenal, Rector of Buxted, by W. Heneage Legge, published 1906 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 49, notes & queries, p.170) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2134] & The Keep [LIB/500267] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Hospitals: Buxted, by William Page, F.S.A., published 1907 in The Victoria History of the County of Sussex (vol. 2: Ecclesiastical, Maritime, Social and Economic History, Population 1801-1901, Industries, Agriculture, Forestry, Architecture, Schools and Sport, p.99, London: Victoria County History, ISBN-10: 0712905863 & ISBN-13: 9780712905862) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2399][Lib 9097] & The Keep [LIB/500090][LIB/504899] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Cannon Made at Buxted , by K. H. Macdermott, published February 1927 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 5, note, p.156) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

Medley Family at Buxted, by K. H. M-D., published February 1927 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 5, reply, p.161) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

Cannon Made at Buxted , by Ernest Straker, published May 1927 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 6, note, p.188) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

Minion Borde, by K. H. M-D., published May 1927 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 6, note, pp.188-189) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

Buxted the Beautiful, by Rev. K. H. MacDermott, published 1929 (52 pp., Brighton: Pell and Son) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Another parish has been added to the list of those whose history has been written. In this case it is Buxted whose Rector the Rev. K. II. MacDermott has published an interesting pamphlet, full of details of the parish which he rightly calls "Beautiful". Besides a mass of historical and other information an excellent feature in the reproduction of the Sussex vernacular in the sayings of the venerable village patriarch. "Must a' bin drear and lonesome to live in a hole like that wi' nothing but rats and ammuts and creepy-crawlies to keep yer company. Damp and cold too in driply weather such as we've bin havin'. I wouldn't 'a bided there long I know !" A remark made, not about Buxted, but about the Hermitage there.

Parson Levett, by Ernest Straker, published May 1929 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. II no. 6, note, p.190) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8951] & The Keep [LIB/500204] & S.A.S. library

Buxted Estate , by K. H. Macdermott, published February 1930 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 1, note, pp.29-30) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

The Hermits Cave and Rocks, Buxted, by S.N.Q. Contributor, published May 1930 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 2, query & reply, p.62) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

Parish Church of St Margaret, Buxted, Sussex, by Rev K H Macdermott, published 1932 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9240]

Historic Houses of Sussex - The Hermitage, Buxted, by Viscountess Wolseley, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 2, article, pp.73-77) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

The Buckhurst Terrier, 1597-1598, by Ernest Straker, published 1933 (vol. 39, Sussex Record Society) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2255][Lib 8038] & The Keep [LIB/500411] & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

The Buckhurst Terrier, though known to and quoted by the Rev. R. W. Sackville-West (afterwards Lord Buckhurst) in his "Historical Notices of Withyham" (London, 1857), and also to the Rev. C. N. Sutton, who used it in his "Historical Notes of Withyham, Hartfield and Ashdown Forest" (Tunbridge Wells, 1902), had been missing for nearly a generation.
The former Stoneland Lodge, now called Buckhurst House, built in 1743, has undergone many changes. The recess of a disused door in the library had been fitted with shelves, but during the tenancy of the late Mr. Robert Benson, about 1905, a wall-covering was carried over this recess, and by some carelessness the Terrier and other books were covered up by it. At the end of the tenancy, in March, 1931, this covering was removed and the Terrier recovered.
Earl De La Warr, whose property it is, has very kindly given permission to the publication of an epitome by the Sussex Record Society.
The Terrier gives a remarkably complete survey of a large area in North-East Sussex, comprising the greater part of the parishes of Hartfield and Withyham, together with much land in East Grinstead and other parishes bordering on Ashdown Forest, as it was in the closing years of the reign of Elizabeth. The date of compilation, as stated on the title page, is the 39th and 40th years of that reign, i.e. between 17th November, 1596, and 16th November, 1598, but the date of the last lease entered is 8th June, 1599.

Another interesting volume has been published by the Sussex Record Society. It consists of the Buckhurst Terrier, the property of Earl De La Warr, who has kindly given permission for this publication to be made.
The Terrier is a full manorial account of some 17 manors in the Rape of Pevensey and mostly in the immediate neighbourhood of Ashdown Forest. The survey was made by Thomas Marshall for Sir Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst (1536-1608), a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth and one of the most prominent men of his time. He was created Earl of Dorset in 1604.
The Terrier is in excellent preservation, notwithstanding that it was lost for a considerable time behind some panelling in Buckhurst House. It is invaluable to those who are studying the history of the neighbourhood, besides being a first-rate example of its own class. A special feature of interest is the series of 40 maps covering the areas of the manors.
The whole Terrier has been epitomised by Mr. Ernest Straker, F.S.A., and most carefully edited by him. He gives an excellent Introduction dealing with the family of Sackville, the previous history of the manors recorded and a full account of the Terrier itself. He has taken endless pains in producing an accurate condensation of a very valuable source of the history of the large part of Sussex covered by the Manors.
Both he and the Society are to be congratulated on the volume.

Report of Local Secretary. Buxted, by Stanley Tooth, published 1933 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 74, notes & queries, p.244) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2159] & The Keep [LIB/500355] & S.A.S. library

Buxted Park, the Residence of Mr and the Hon. Mrs Ionides (1), by Country Life contributor(s), published 21 April 1934 in Country Life (article)

Buxted Park, the Residence of Mr and the Hon. Mrs Ionides (2), by Country Life contributor(s), published 28 April 1934 in Country Life (article)

Buxted Park, the Residence of Mr and the Hon. Mrs Ionides (1), by C. Hussey, published 21 April 1934 in Country Life (article)

Buxted Park, the Residence of Mr and the Hon. Mrs Ionides (2), by C. Hussey, published 28 April 1934 in Country Life (article)

Parish Church of St Margaret, Buxted, Sussex, by K. H. Macdermott, published 1942 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4984]

The Buxted Parish Registers, by Brigadier-General E. G. Godfrey-Faussett, published May 1942 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IX no. 2, article, pp.31-34) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8227][Lib 2208] & The Keep [LIB/500211] & S.A.S. library

The Buxted Parish Boundary at Crowborough Warren, by I. D. Margery, published August 1946 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XI no. 3, article, pp.56-57) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8229][Lib 2210] & The Keep [LIB/500213] & S.A.S. library

Buxted Park, Sussex: ca. 1725, burnt 1940, rebuilt with old materials, by Country Life contributor(s), published 4 August 1950 in Country Life (article, pp.374-378, and subsequent issues)

A Chronicle of Buxted: Some Annals of its Church and Rectors, by Greville Cooke, published 1960 (Uckfield Press)

This, as its sub-title states, consists of some annals of the church and rectors (the author is the present Rector), but there is some mention of the Lords of the Manor and their house and the buildings in the old village near the church. The arrangement is chronological, which is suitable for this type of book and gives a better impression of the continuity than the more familiar method of treating the several features independently. There is little original matter, but the author reproduces in a very readable form facts industriously collected from many sources, some (especially the archiepiscopal registers) not always easy of access. There are clerical errors (chiefly in dates) which will be corrected in a later edition.

Parish Church of St Margaret, Buxted, Sussex, by Greville Cooke, published c.1960 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11811]

Two Dated Bloomery Sites in the Weald [at Hartfield and Buxted], by J. Pettitt, P. Archibald and C. F. Tebbutt, published May 1970 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVII no. 5, note, pp.167-168) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8235] & The Keep [LIB/500219] & S.A.S. library

Early Gunfounding in England and Wales, by Rhys Jenkins, published 1971 in Newcomen: The International Society for the History of Engineering and Technology (vol. 44, issue 1, article, pp.145-152)   View Online

Earthwork at Buxted, by Eric W. Holden, published 1972 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 110, shorter notice, p.127) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2195] & The Keep [LIB/500319] & S.A.S. library

Investigations by the Buxted team, by Henry Cleere, published Spring 1972 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No 3, article, pp.10-12) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Excavations 1974: Etchingwood, Buxted, by C. F. Tebbutt, published September 1974 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 14, article, p.59) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Old Buxted Place, by Charles Frederick Tebbutt, published 1975 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 113, article, pp.51-53) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6177] & The Keep [LIB/500316] & S.A.S. library

A Bloomery hearth at Etchingwood, Buxted, by P. Archibald and C. F. Tebbutt, published 1975 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 113, note, pp.190-191) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6177] & The Keep [LIB/500316] & S.A.S. library

A Martyr Descent, by Michael J. Burchall, published June 1978 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 3 no. 5, article, pp.137-140) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7967] & The Keep [LIB/501255] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A family tree from John Morris 1490 - whose wife and son were burned at the stake for protestant belief. Article covers the years 1465 - 1973 in the parish of Heathfield, Buxted, Maresfield and Victoria Australia

Buxted Medieval Village Site, by Charles Frederick Tebbutt, published 1979 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 117, shorter notice, pp.261-263) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7497] & The Keep [LIB/500312] & S.A.S. library

Tracing Kenwards in Sussex, by Ross & Noel Kenward, published September 1979 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 1, article, pp.14-18) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8672] & The Keep [LIB/501256] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Dear Relation: You will recall that grandfather, Frederick William Kenward, was born at three places, Uckfield, Buxted and 'Howborn'? In an endeavour to finally solve this mystery your 'agents' journeyed to England . . .

The Chequered History of Pope's Hall, Limes Lane, Buxted, by Stephen Warden, published March 1981 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 7, article, pp.217-220) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8672] & The Keep [LIB/501256] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Field Notes: Furnace Wood, Buxted, by C. F. Tebbutt, published 1982 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 2, report, pp.6-11) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

The Queen's Gunstonemaker: An account of Ralph Hogge, Elizabethan Ironmaster & Gunfounder, by Edmund Teesdale, published 1 July 1984 (130 pp., Seaford: Lindel Publishing Co., ISBN-10: 0950235474 & ISBN-13: 9780950235479) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502223] & East Sussex Libraries

The Eighteenth Century Revival of Howbourne Forge, Buxted, by Pam Combes, published 1987 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 7, article, pp.16-19, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560]   Download PDF

In view of the overall decline in the number of Wealden forges operating in the eighteenth century, the revival of Howbourne Forge from 1756 to 1785 is an apparent anomaly.

East Sussex Census 1851 Index: Fletching, Maresfield and Buxted, by June C. Barnes, published 20 March 1990 (vol. 16, booklet, 80 pp., C. J. Barnes & printed at Battle Instant Print Ltd., ISBN-10: 1870264150 & ISBN-13: 9781870264150) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11245] & The Keep [LIB/503434] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Religious Survey 1851 - Uckfield district, edited by John A. Vickers, published August 1990 in The Religious Census of Sussex 1851 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 75, pp.51-58, 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

Uckfield district incl. Rotherfield, Mayfield, Framfield, East Hoathly, Waldron, Isfield, Maresfield, Fletching & Buxted

Buxted - Land Tax 1785, edited by Roger Davey, published 1991 in East Sussex Land Tax, 1785 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 77, pp.47-50, 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

Iron Plat, Buxted, Sussex and Forge Site Survey 1990/1, by D. M. Meades and R. G. Houghton, published 1992 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 12, article, pp.23-26, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560]   Download PDF

The WIRG Field Group surveyed this site as part of its 1990/1 winter programme. This account supplements the information given in the gazetteer of The Iron Industry of the Weald, 148, 339, which suggests that the furnace at Iron Plat may have been one of four furnaces which are mentioned in the Hogge papers (Crossley 1974:52). No other documentary references to Iron Plat are known. Remains on the ground indicate that, in addition to a furnace, there was a conversion forge at this site. Whether the two were contemporary, or one succeeded the other and if so in what order is unknown.

The History of a Village Band 1896-1996. The Warbleton Brass and Reed Band to the Warbleton and Buxted Band., by Judith Kinnison Bourke, published 1996 (124 pp., The Warbleton & Buxted Band, ISBN-10: 0952809206 & ISBN-13: 9780952809203) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Buxted - 18c. Schools, edited by John Caffyn, published 1998 in Sussex Schools in the 18th Century (Sussex Record Society, vol. 81, pp.77-79, 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

Mediaeval Family history: Fifteenth Century Villains, by Mrs. Shirley Stapley, published September 1998 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 3, article, p.87) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/508818] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

On 22 April 1427 John Pocock and Thomas Hony broke into William Stapelegh's close and house at Buxted and stole two silver spoons worth four shillings . . .

Field Notes: A Romano-British bloomery at High Hurstwood, Buxted, East Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2000 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 20, report, pp.2-11, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506567]   Download PDF

The Lordship of Canterbury, iron-founding at Buxted, and the continental antecedents of cannon-founding in the Weald, by Brian G. Awty and Chistopher Whittick, published 2002 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 140, article, pp.71-81) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15109] & The Keep [LIB/500299] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Queenstock Furnace in Buxted is shown to have been built under the auspices of Archbishop John Morton, probably in 1490. The site was at Iron Plat on the Uckfield Stream, within Morton's lordship of South Malling. The furnace was out of blast in 1509, and also apparently in 1537, but it was mentioned again in the 1570s, when it will have been the Buxted site used by the gun founder Ralph Hogge. The furnace had most probably been put in blast again around 1512, will have been the Buxted 'iron mill' used by the Rotherfield ironmaster Roger Machyn in 1524 and was the probable source of the iron railings supplied for Rochester Bridge by Archbishop Warham, who died in 1532. Queenstock, and not Oldlands, was the site at which William Levett cast guns from 1543 onwards. The technique of casting iron guns vertically in stave-lined pits had been used in the duchy of J?lich in 1539 and 1540, and it is suggested that it was brought to Normandy in 1540 and to the Weald in 1543, as a result of the alliances of both Francis I and Henry VIII with William de La Marck, duke of Cleves. In the case of the Weald the intermediary could have been Nicholas Wotton, who in 1539 led the negotiations for Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves, and did not return to England until July 1541, when he took up the office of dean of Canterbury.

Iron Plat, Queenstock hammer-pond and a 15th-century ironworking site at Buxted, by Pam Combes and Christopher Whittick, published 2002 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 22, article, pp.10-17, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506569]   Download PDF

Three tantalisingly early references to ironworks in Buxted have been discovered, the first two by Brian Awty and the third by Judith Brent, in the course of the last twelve months. The purpose of this article is to locate the furnace or furnaces mentioned in two grants of land by the manor of South Malling in 1509, and to establish whether either of the two Buxted hammer ponds rated for the new cut at Newhaven in 1537 can be identified with the same site.
The documentary research upon which our conclusions have been based, although far from exhaustive, has involved a minute investigation of the records of land-ownership, and only a summary can be presented here.

The Queenstock furnace at Buxted, Sussex: the earliest in England?, by Brian Awty, published 2003 in Historical metallurgy (vol. 37, part 1, article, pp.51-52)

Field Notes: Iron Plat furnace and forge, Buxted, East Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2003 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 23, report, pp.2-6, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506570]   Download PDF

1841 Census vol.18 - Maresfield area, published 2006 by PBN Publications (Ref: BPCT, CD-ROM, ISBN-10: 1905347278)

Charles Dawson's rare essay on the hermitage at Buxted, by Peter Miles, published 2007 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 145, article, pp.195-209) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15980] & The Keep [LIB/500363] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Sussex antiquarian Charles Dawson, notorious for his involvement in the Piltdown Man fraud, wrote an essay on the rock hermitage at Buxted which has yet to figure in direct discussion of Dawson's life, work and forgeries. The essay was printed in limited numbers early in the twentieth century as the introduction to photograph albums commissioned by Cecil De M. Caulfeild Pratt of High Hurstwood, Buxted. Particularly in context with the photographs, Dawson's essay throws further light on his interests, motivations, scholarly methods and on previously unrecorded social and professional contacts. Internal evidence from Dawson's essay, together with the present author's family history, is used to suggest a window of dating for the essay and for the photographs (by Towner of Uckfield). It is further suggested how one of Dawson's footnotes to the essay relates to the forging of inscribed Roman tiles allegedly found at Pevensey Castle. Dawson's essay is then reproduced as an appendix, with some annotations.

Field Notes: Two bloomery sites in Buxted, East Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2009 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 29, report, pp.3-6, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506576]   Download PDF

Buxted, St. Margaret the Queen - Church monuments, edited by Nigel Llewellyn, published 2011 in East Sussex Church Monuments, 1530-1830 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 93, pp.63-67, 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

Anthony Fowle: Wealden Ironmaster and Lawyer, by Pamela Combes, published 2011 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 31, article, pp.31-59, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506578]   Download PDF

The gazetteer in the latest edition of The Iron Industry of the Weald notes the interests of Anthony Fowle in various ironworks, including Markly Furnace in Warbleton, Maynards Gate Furnace in Rotherfield and Maresfield Forge, all of which are mentioned in his will. That document also reveals something of the extent of his landed property as well as the marriage alliances made by some of his thirteen children. Those connections demonstrate that the Fowles continued the tradition of intermarriage with the families of other ironmasters that was noted by Jeremy Goring as a trait of the immediate family of Anthony's uncle Nicholas Fowle (see Appendix 2, table 1). Nicholas Fowle and his family are frequently cited as notable ironmasters, possibly because Nicholas built the ostentatious Riverhall mansion house near their furnace in Frant that can still be seen today. It is curious that Anthony Fowle has remained comparatively unnoticed since there is no doubt that his influence within the wider community was significant. During his long and active life Anthony was not only a major ironmaster but also a lawyer, serving for many years as a JP, as sheriff of Sussex in 1637/8, and on the county committee during the Commonwealth. His son Richard, who inherited his Newick property, was also of some standing in the county community, serving as a grand juror at the Assizes on five occasions between 1653 and 1659.
This note seeks to demonstrate the position of Anthony Fowle in county society and particularly draws attention to the marriage connections of his children and of his sisters, especially those with other ironmasters. His will is of particular interest to members of WIRG and a transcription is included here as an appendix. The will itself identifies many of the family relationships. Where possible others have been researched in detail, but some information has been derived from secondary sources. It is clear that family relationships were important to Anthony Fowle, all his surviving children and his then living grandchildren received some remembrance in his will. After Anthony's time the story is one of slow decline. In the longer term only the Rotherfield branch of the family flourished - and then only into the mid 18th century.
As was customary, his will records only the land he held on lease. His major estate at Newick, does not appear, and there may have been other property which remains invisible for the same reason. Where possible his property has been located, not only that named in his will, but also some that is recorded in other sources but which he may no longer have owned in 1647. His interest in ironworks, in particular at Maynards Gate in Crowborough (formerly Rotherfield) and also Little Forge and furnace in Buxted, is of particular interest and is considered in detail.

A Pope family fireback, by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2013 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 33, article, pp.27-31, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507841]   Download PDF

A cast-iron fireback has been identified as bearing the arms of the Pope family of Hendall, in Buxted. It has the date 1625 and the initials SP. The fireback appears to have been cast from a one-piece wooden pattern with arms carved in low relief within a shield embellished with strapwork motifs, which were typical of the early 17th century. The styling of the initials, on each side of the shield, suggests that they were carved as part of the original pattern. However, the date, which may well have been carved as a small stamp, appears to have been added to the mould before casting as it obliterates one of the fleur-de-lys embellishments above the shield.

Know Sussex villages : unbelievably true tales of endeavour, love, hate, deception and scandal : West Tarring, Upper Dicker, Buxted, Rusper, Maresfield, Baldslow / Roy Lewis, by Roy Lewis, published 9 April 2015 (150 pp., Country Books, ISBN-10: 1910489093 & ISBN-13: 9781910489093) accessible at: British Library