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Tunbridge Wells and its Neighbourhood illustrated by a Series of Etchings and Historical Descriptions, by Paul Amsinck and engraved by Letitia Byrne, published 1810 (London: William Miller & Edmund Lloyd) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506727] & West Sussex Libraries View Online
An Act for making a Railway from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway at Uckfield in the County of Sussex to Tunbridge Wells, in the County of Kent, and for other purposes, published 1861 (ii + 20 pp., J. B. Nichols & Sons) accessible at: British Library
English Homes and Villages, Kent & Sussex also published as Tunbridge Wells and its Neighbourhood, by Lady Elizabeth R. Hope, published 1909 (296 pp., Sevenoaks: J. Salmon) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries View Online
Notes on the geology and structure of the country around Tunbridge Wells: With report of excursion to Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, High Rocks and Eridge. Saturday, May 20th, 1922, by Henry B. Milner, M.A., D.I.C., F.G.S., published 1923 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 34 issue 1, article, pp.47-55) View Online
Abstract:The following notes describe the geology of some forty square miles of country in the vicinity of Tunbridge Wells, stretching northward almost to Tonbridge and southward to Eridge and Boarshead in Sussex, and as far as Groombridge and Ashurst to the west, of which some of the main features were investigated by members of the Association during the excursion. The six-inch mapping of this area is a continuation of the author's work in the Weald, of which some results have already been published in these proceedings.
The Tunbridge Wells country presents many geological features meriting the attention of those interested in the Weald. Much to be learned from a detailed study of the Lower Cretaceous rocks as developed here, and from their modes of occurrence, has a wider significance than would at first be apparent from casual inspection; thus certain phases in the course of the evolution of the Weald as a whole are realised, the nature of the evidence permitting of a ready appreciation of the factors involved.
The normal Wealden sequence comprises (in descending order) Weald Clay (1200ft.), Tunbridge Wells Sand (180ft.), Wadhurst Clay (150ft.), and Ashdown Sand (400ft.); all four divisionsoccur in this region. In the paper above referred to, the author drew attention to the great practical value accruing from a petrographic study of the individual Wealden beds as an aid to geological mapping. The rocks of the district, by their general barrenness of fossils and by the marked similarities shown frequently by the clays and sands, serve to emphasize this point, especially in cases of repetition or elimination of beds by faulting, a prominent feature of the area. Consequently in the following paragraphs stress is laid on the petrographic criteria which have contributed so largely to the identification and differentiation of horizons in the field.
The Tunbridge Wells country presents many geological features meriting the attention of those interested in the Weald. Much to be learned from a detailed study of the Lower Cretaceous rocks as developed here, and from their modes of occurrence, has a wider significance than would at first be apparent from casual inspection; thus certain phases in the course of the evolution of the Weald as a whole are realised, the nature of the evidence permitting of a ready appreciation of the factors involved.
The normal Wealden sequence comprises (in descending order) Weald Clay (1200ft.), Tunbridge Wells Sand (180ft.), Wadhurst Clay (150ft.), and Ashdown Sand (400ft.); all four divisionsoccur in this region. In the paper above referred to, the author drew attention to the great practical value accruing from a petrographic study of the individual Wealden beds as an aid to geological mapping. The rocks of the district, by their general barrenness of fossils and by the marked similarities shown frequently by the clays and sands, serve to emphasize this point, especially in cases of repetition or elimination of beds by faulting, a prominent feature of the area. Consequently in the following paragraphs stress is laid on the petrographic criteria which have contributed so largely to the identification and differentiation of horizons in the field.
Sussex Hunts No 5. The Eridge, by S.C.M. Contributor(s), published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 12, article, pp.570-572) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]
Frant Court and Eridge Castle, by Joseph E. S. King, published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 3, article, pp.161-162) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500139]
The Foxhounds of Sussex - The Eridge, Lord Leconfield's, the Southdown & the East Sussex, by G. E. Collins, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 2, article, pp.120-124) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500172]
The Eridge Hunt, by Henry Swanston Eeles, published 1936 (176 pp., Tunbridge Wells: Courier Printing & Publishing Co.) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502151]
The Eridge Hunt, by William Fawcett, published 1936 (36 pp., London: The Hunts Association & printed at G. W. May, Limited) accessible at: British Library
A short history of the Eridge Hunt, by Ralph Greaves, published c.1955 (40 pp., London: Reid-Hamilton) accessible at: British Library
Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement in Eridge Park, by James H. Money, published 1979 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 117, shorter notice, p.258) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7497] & The Keep [LIB/500312] & S.A.S. library
The Cuckoo Line, by A. G. Elliott, published 1 September 1988 (76 pp., Wild Swan Publications Ltd, ISBN-10: 0906867630 & ISBN-13: 9780906867631) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Rock shelter stratigraphy: Excavations at Eridge, by Christopher Greatorex and Mike Seager Thomas, published 2000 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 138, article, pp.49-56) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14509] & The Keep [LIB/500298] & S.A.S. library View Online
Abstract:Excavation of two rock shelters at Eridge during 1999 yielded close to 500 struck flints of Mesolithic date and evidence of possible Late Iron Age/Early Romano-British iron-smelting. Although disturbed by animal activity, the relationship of the finds to each other and to the sediments in which they were found indicated the existence of former land surfaces and activity areas. Buried positive features, including two hearths and a pour of tap-slag, were also identified.
A season with the hunt: the Southdown and Eridge Hunt, by Craig Payne, published 1 December 2009 (ENM Solutions, ISBN-10: 0956404804 & ISBN-13: 9780956404800) accessible at: British Library