Publications
Charlton and the Charlton Hunt; a sketch of the olden time, by T. G. Bennett, published 1863 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 15, article, pp.74-82) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2100] & The Keep [LIB/500234] & S.A.S. library View Online
Charlton, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. I, pp.99-100, Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3314] & The Keep [LIB/500159] View Online
Charlton Forest, by L. F. Ramsey, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 3, article, pp.241-242) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500172]
All Change at Singleton for Charlton, Goodwood, East and West Dean, by Ian Serraillier, published 1 January 1979 (112 pp., Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 0850333512 & ISBN-13: 9780850333510) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7410] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
The History of Foxhall, published c.1980 (pamphlet, Landmark Trust) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12826]
Mr Legge and Charlton End, by Arthur Knight, published January 1986 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 33, article, p.23) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/33] & The Keep [LIB/500481]
The Cobden Family of West Sussex: A Search for Personalities, by Margery Waddams, published March 1988 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 1, article, pp.3-8) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:Edward Cobden (1703-1759) and Jane Wittington (1711-1759) had nine children. Article covers the years 1703 - 1814 in the parishes of Charlton, West Dean, and Singleton.
A Chronology of the History of Two Buildings at Charlton related to the Charlton Hunt, by J. Eyre, published April 1993 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 51, article, p.25) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/51] & The Keep [LIB/500483]
"What right has he to hunt this country?", by Thea Valentine, published October 1993 in Midhurst Magazine (Volume 6 Number 1, article, pp.27-30, Autumn 1993) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15968]
Abstract:The story of the rise and fall of the Charlton and Petworth Hunts in the 1600s and 1700s, including the feud between Mr Roper and the Duke of Somerset!
The Charlton Hunt: A history, by Simon Rees, published 1 March 1998 (304 pp., Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 1860770762 & ISBN-13: 9781860770760) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13717] & West Sussex Libraries
Abstract:The Charlton Hunt began in the 1670s and is the earliest documented pack of hounds to be entered to fox alone. It attained a popularity among the gentry which has never been equalled. From the reign of Charles II, almost every noble family in the land had a representative at Charlton, including almost half of the Knights of the Garter. Its first proprietor had been the ill-fated Duke of Monmouth, but among other claims to uniqueness, it was the first hunt to establish a club, the members building themselves a dining hall.
Fox Hall, West Sussex, by Rosemary Baird, published 17 January 2002 in Country Life (vol. 196 no. 3, article, pp.54-57)
Foxed by Fox Hall, by Rosemary Baird, published 2005 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 143, article, pp.215-238) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15610] & The Keep [LIB/500361] & S.A.S. library View Online
Abstract:This article seeks to establish the origins of two early-18th-century buildings in the village of Charlton, West Sussex. These are the 'Great Room' or 'Dome' (the first Fox Hall), which no longer stands, and the Duke of Richmond's hunting-lodge (the second Fox Hall), which survives.
The paper is a development on a short article published in Country Life on 17 January 2002. That article sought to place the hunting-lodge in context, and to attribute it to the architect Roger Morris. The article presented here additionally surveys all known details of the Great Room, or first Fox Hall, an early exercise by the great scholar-patron Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington. It also investigates the question of its location. Both buildings are looked at within the context of the early history of hunting, of the patronage of the first two Dukes of Richmond, and of the Palladian movement in architecture.
Use is made of the unpublished notes prepared by the late Charlotte Haslam for the Landmark Trust, together with a fresh look at maps in the West Sussex Record Office, some of which have been redated. This article thus draws together all previous discussion about the two buildings, combining with new information to give the fullest history possible, and the first clear picture of how the two buildings related to each other.
The paper is a development on a short article published in Country Life on 17 January 2002. That article sought to place the hunting-lodge in context, and to attribute it to the architect Roger Morris. The article presented here additionally surveys all known details of the Great Room, or first Fox Hall, an early exercise by the great scholar-patron Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington. It also investigates the question of its location. Both buildings are looked at within the context of the early history of hunting, of the patronage of the first two Dukes of Richmond, and of the Palladian movement in architecture.
Use is made of the unpublished notes prepared by the late Charlotte Haslam for the Landmark Trust, together with a fresh look at maps in the West Sussex Record Office, some of which have been redated. This article thus draws together all previous discussion about the two buildings, combining with new information to give the fullest history possible, and the first clear picture of how the two buildings related to each other.