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Parish of Hartfield, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. I, rape of Pevensey, pp.391-393) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2396][Lib 3211] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500087] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Hartfield, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. I, pp.211-212, Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3314] & The Keep [LIB/500159]   View Online

Gold Coin found near Hartfield, by Cyril E. Hubbard, published 1899 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 42, notes & queries, p.247) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2127] & The Keep [LIB/500260] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Historical Notes of Withyham, Hartfield and Ashdown Forest together with the History of the Sackville Family, by Charles Nassau Sutton, published 1902 (x + 388 pp., Tunbridge Wells: Baldwin) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503092] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

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

Bolebroke House, by W. D. Scull, published 1909 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 52, article, pp.32-37) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2137] & The Keep [LIB/500270] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Bolebrook House, by L. F. Salzman, published 1911 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 54, notes & queries, p.274) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2139] & The Keep [LIB/500272] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Hartfield Church Bell, by Wm Morphew, published 1914 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 56, notes & queries, pp.200-201) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2141] & The Keep [LIB/500274] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Exploration of the "Castle" Mound at Hartfield, by L. F. Salzman, published 1914 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 56, notes & queries, pp.201-202) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2141] & The Keep [LIB/500274] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Fire-Back from the Old Anchor Inn at Hartfield, now in Pennsylvania, by Ian C. Hannah, published 1919 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 60, notes & queries, p.146) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2145] & The Keep [LIB/500278] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Geology of the country around East Grinstead, Sussex: With Report of Excursion to Hartfield, Holtye Common, Forest Row, Ashurstwood and East Grinstead, Saturday, June 16th, 1923, 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 4, article, pp.283-300)   View Online

The country to be described covers an area of some thirty-six square miles and is embraced by parts of Sheets IV. and VI. and the whole of Sheet V. of the six-inch Ordnance Survey maps (Sussex). It is a continuation westward of the author's work in the Tunbridge Wells district, some results of which were published in a recent number of these proceedings. The area includes the town of East Grinstead with Felbridge, and extends as far east as Ashurst (Kent); to the north it takes in Cowden (Kent) and a small strip of the Surrey-Sussex border-land; southward it extends to the northern fringe of Ashdown Forest and includes the picturesque country from Kingscote by Forest Row to Hartfield and beyond.
It has been the author's hope that by a combination of six-inchmapping and detailed petrographic investigation of the rocks occurring in the more disturbed area of the Weald, new light would be thrown on some of the still debatable points concerning its tectonics and on the origin of the sediments composing it, anticipations yet further strengthened by the results of the work in this district.

Historic Houses of Sussex - Bolebroke, Hartfield, by Viscountess Wolseley, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 6, article, pp.343-348) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

Across the Valley of the Medway, by Raymond C. Chandler, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 7, article, pp.423-426) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

Historic Houses of Sussex - Bassett's Manor, Hartfield, by Viscountess Wolseley, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 10, article, pp.622-627) 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.

Historic Houses of Sussex - Chartners Farm, Hartfield, by Viscountess Wolseley, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 7, article, pp.415-420) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

Agricultural History in the Hundred of Hartfield, by Ernest Straker, published 1935 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 76, article, pp.172-177) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2161] & The Keep [LIB/500353] & S.A.S. library

It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer, by A. A. Milne, published 1939 (267 pp., Methuen) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Sussex Church Plans XLVIII: St. Mary, Hartfield, by W. H. G. [W. H. Godfrey], published May 1939 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 6, article, pp.188-189) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library

Modern South Saxons No. 128 - Mr A. A. Milne, by M. S. R.-G., published September 1939 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XIII, no. 9, article, p.578, Sussex County Magazine) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2318] & The Keep [LIB/500184]   View Online

Hartfield: The Yeoman Family of Miles, and an Unknown Artist, by R. H. Adams, published August 1946 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XI no. 3, article, p.68) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8229][Lib 2210] & The Keep [LIB/500213] & S.A.S. library

Landhurst, Hartfield, Sussex; Architect: L. Osman, by Arthur Oswald, published 18 February 1949 in Country Life (article, pp.366-368)

Guide to the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Hartfield, by Walter H Godfrey, published 1951 (pamphlet, 11 pp.) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6530] & East Sussex Libraries

An Old Map of Cansiron in East Grinstead and Hartfield, 1724, by Ivan D. Margary, F.S.A., published February 1951 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII no. 5, article, pp.100-102) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & S.A.S. library

A Polished Flint Axe from Upper Hartfield, by C. F. Tebbutt, published May 1968 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVII no. 1, note, pp.21-22) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8235] & The Keep [LIB/500219] & S.A.S. library

Roman Roads at Upper Hartfield, by C. F. Tebbutt, published May 1968 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVII no. 1, note, pp.22-23) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8235] & The Keep [LIB/500219] & S.A.S. library

Garden Hill Camp, Hartfield, by Charles Frederick Tebbutt, published 1970 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 108, article, pp.39-49) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2193] & The Keep [LIB/500321] & S.A.S. library

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

A Romano-British Bloomery at Pippingford, Hartfield, by C. Frederick Tebbutt and Henry Cleere, published 1973 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 111, article, pp.27-40) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2196] & The Keep [LIB/500318] & S.A.S. library

Excavations 1972: Garden Hill, Hartfield, by J. H. Money, published May 1973 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 10, article, p.38) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Excavations 1973: Garden Hill Excavation Group: Hartfield - Garden Hill, by C. F. Tebbutt, published January 1974 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 12, article, p.47) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Excavations 1973: Wealden Iron Research Group: Hartfield - Pippingford Furnace, by D. W. Crossley, published January 1974 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 12, article, p.47) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

An Abandoned Medieval Industrial Site at Parrock, Hartfield, by Charles Frederick Tebbutt, published 1975 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 113, article, pp.146-150) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6177] & The Keep [LIB/500316] & S.A.S. library

Excavations 1974: Garden Hill Research Group, by C. F. Tebbutt, published March 1975 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 15, article, p.64) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Excavations 1975: Garden Hill, Hartfield, by J. H. Money, published April 1976 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 18, article, p.80, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Excavations 1976: Garden Hill, Hartfield, by J. H. Money, published April 1977 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 21, article, pp.112-113, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

The Iron-Age hill-fort and Romano-British iron-working settlement at Garden Hill, Sussex: interim report on excavations, 1968-76, by J. H. Money, M. G. Fulford and C. Eade, published November 1977 in Britannia (vol. 8, article, pp.339-350)   View Online

The earthwork at Garden Hill, Hartfield, East Sussex, until then unrecognised, was identified in 1968 by Mr C. F. Tebbutt, who found early Romano-British material in a trial excavation. Five seasons of excavation (1972-76) by the Garden Hill Excavation Group have established the broad outline of the site's history. A scatter of worked flints indicates slight occupation in the Neolithic/Bronze Age period. Attributed to the late pre-Roman Iron Age are a round house and part of what may be another. A hill-fort, with stonerevetted and palisaded defences, was built, possibly against the Roman invasion, but soon fell into disuse and was followed by Romano-British occupation. This included a rectangular timber building, roasting- and smeltingfurnaces and a forging-hearth of the first century; a rectangular building with two verandahs, using timber uprights set on padstones and in post-holes, and a four-post structure on the same alignment, both probably first-century; a timber building set on a stone platform and attached stone bath-building, of the second century; and undated post-hole and timber-slot systems (not fully excavated) representing fences and other timber structures. It is possible that Garden Hill was the base from which local iron-smelting sites were operated in the first and second centuries.

Excavations 1977: Garden Hill, Hartfield, by J. H. Money, published April 1978 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 24, article, p.142, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

A History of the Parish and Church of St Mary the Virgin, Hartfield, by P. D. S. Blake, published 1979 (pamphlet, 17 pp., Hartfield: Hartfield Rectory) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11816] & East Sussex Libraries

The excavation of a 16th-century pottery kiln at Lower Parrock, Hartfield, East Sussex, 1977, by D. J. Freke, C. R. Cartwright, A. Clark, J. Craddock, A. D. F. Streeten and H. A. Waldron, published 1979 in The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology (vol. 13, article, pp.79-125) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/501323]   View Online

The excavation of an early 16th-century pottery kiln is described. The method of excavation and the analysis of the excavated material were planned to test sampling procedures which may be used on more complex sites. The link between the kiln and the local iron industry was also investigated, and it is suggested that the potter was French.

The Excavation of Three Roman Bloomery Furnaces at Hartfield, Sussex, by Charles Frederick Tebbutt, published 1979 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 117, article, pp.47-56) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7497] & The Keep [LIB/500312] & S.A.S. library

A Medieval Roof Tile with Impression of Fabric, from Parrock, Hartfield, by Charles Frederick Tebbutt, published 1979 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 117, shorter notice, p.261) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7497] & The Keep [LIB/500312] & S.A.S. library

A Roman Coin from Great Cansiron bloomery site, by C. F. Tebbutt, published 1979 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 16, article, pp.14-15) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Excavations in the Iron-Age Hill Fort and Romano-British Iron-Working Settlement at Garden Hill, Hartfield, East Sussex (1968-1978), by J. H. Money and A. D. F. Streeten, published 1979 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 15, article, pp.16-26) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Garden Hill, part of an area known as 'The Park', is a NE-pointing spur of high ground 1½ miles (2.4km.) east of Wych Cross and 3½ miles (5.6km.) SW of Hartfield (in which parish of East Sussex it lies), between 500 and 550 feet above sea level. The nearest towns are Tunbridge Wells, 10 miles (16km.) north-east, and East Grinstead, 5 miles (8km.) north-west. The ground falls away fairly steeply on the north, south and east sides of the hill, but there is a level approach from the west. The subsoil is Ashdown Sand. The top of the hill is mainly flat, growing luxuriant bracken, with a sprinkling of trees, chiefly sweet chestnut and birch, but including a few very old yews.
Garden Hill lies near a minor Roman road (Margary 148), which in turn connects with the main London-Lewes road (Margary 14) at Gallypot Street. If, as is likely, a road linked the Romano-British settlement to Route 148, it would probably have been on the NW side, where the intervening ground is flat.
It is clear from the archaeological excavation that sometime in the past the hill-top was lightly ploughed and, as part of The Park, it may have been under grass. At present, Garden Hill lies within the Army Training Area of Pippingford Park and is owned by the Ministry of Defence.
In 1968 our Chairman, Mr C.F. Tebbutt, discovered the earthwork, which encloses an oblong area of about 6.8 acres (2.7 hectares) on the hill and has been proved to be a late Iron Age hill-fort with a typical inturned entrance at the NE corner there is possibly another entrance at the NW corner.
After promising trial excavations in the SE corner by Mr Tebbutt, in which first-century AD Romano-British material was found, the earthwork and the area which it enclosed were scheduled as an Ancient Monument by the then Ministry of Public Buildings and Works, fenced off from the rest of the Training Area and placed out of bounds to troops. The earthwork was surveyed and a plan drawn by Mr E.W. Holden.
In 1972, a small group, directed by Mr J.H. Money and Mr Tebbutt, investigated an area where buried structures were evident and excavated what turned out to be a small but complete 2nd-century AD Romano-British bath-building.
Following these encouraging results the Garden Hill Excavation Group was formed with the support of the Sussex Archaeological Society, and excavation on a much larger scale has taken place annually since 1973. These excavations have produced evidence of Neolithic/Bronze Age/Early pre-Roman Iron Age occupation of the hill-top and uncovered remains of the late pre-Roman Iron Age and a Romano-British iron-working settlement of the first, second and early third centuries AD.

Excavation Report: Garden Hill, Hartfield, East Sussex, by J. H. Money, M.A., F.S.A. and A. D. F. Streeten, B.A., published April 1979 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 27, article, p.180, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Castle Field, Hartfield (TQ 481 361), by Charles Frederick Tebbutt, published 1980 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 118, archaeological note, pp.377-378) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7805] & The Keep [LIB/500305] & S.A.S. library

The Church of Sir Richard de Wych and the Thompson Family of Ashdown Park, Hartfield, by Charles Frederick Tebbutt, published 1980 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 118, historical note, pp.389-392) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7805] & The Keep [LIB/500305] & S.A.S. library

Excavation Report 1979: An Early Medieval Settlement at Faulkners Farm, Hartfield, by C. F. Tebbutt, published April 1980 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 30, article, p.200, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Excavation Report 1979: Garden Hill, Hartfield, East Sussex, by J. Money, published April 1980 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 30, article, p.201, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

A Deserted Medieval Farm Settlement at Faulkner's Farm, Hartfield, by Charles Frederick Tebbutt, published 1981 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 119, article, pp.107-116) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7989] & The Keep [LIB/500306] & S.A.S. library

Excavation Report 1980: Garden Hill, Hartfield, by J. Money, published August 1981 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 34, article, pp.242-243, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Field Group Notes: Tugmore Shaw, Hartfield, 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

Minepit Surveys 2: Survey of mine pits in Tugmore Shaw, Hartfield TC 458373, by Giles Swift, published 1982 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 2, article, p.19) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

These pits, 250 in total, occupying an area of approximately two hectares were surveyed and recorded by members of the WIRG field group during autumn and winter 1981. No system was apparent in the layout of the pits. The quite large area of undug ground between the pits may indicate that mining was taking place in woodland which needed to be preserved.

Minepit Surveys 3: Possible mines for the Roman Bloomery at Cansiron, by Giles Swift, published 1982 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 2, article, pp.20-21) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

Following the survey of minepits in Tugmore Shaw and considering the proximity of the Roman industrial site at Cansiron it seemed possible that the large quarries at Tugmore might be the source of iron ore for the Roman bloomeries.

Bassetts Blast Furnace, by Brian Herbert, published 1983 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 3, article, pp.36-42) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

A blast furnace site has been discovered in the parish of Hartfield at TQ 4683 3738. The furnace site, which is under grass, and the leat which supplied water are owned by Mr Whetstone of Bassetts Manor. Straker referred to this site as a corn mill in 1939, but did mention that a little furnace slag was present. On investigation, in March 1980, a great deal of slag was found in the river and in the field to the south.

Excavations at Great Cansiron Farm, Hartfield, by D. R. Rudling, published 1983 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 3, article, pp.43-47) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

During the winter of 1981-2 Giles Swift of the Wealden Iron Research Group discovered in a ploughed field on Great Cansiron Farm, Hartfield, an area of burnt clay and Roman tile, together with a few pieces of Roman pottery. The site, which lies close to a small stream, is located between an extensive Roman ironworking site to the south west (Tebbutt, 1972) and possible large Roman iron ore quarries to the north east (Swift, pers. comm.). In an attempt to interpret and more precisely date this site an excavation and survey were undertaken in the summer of 1982.

Field Notes: Hartfield, published 1984 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 4, report, pp.2-3, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

Further Excavations on Great Cansiron Farm, Hartfield, by David Rudling, published 1985 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 5, article, pp.36-40, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

In 1983, a second season of excavations was undertaken on Great Cansiron Farm in order to follow up and complete the investigations of a Roman tile kiln and an associated drying shed which had been started in 1982, (Rudling, 1983). This second season of rescue excavations was able to take place as a result of generous grants from a modern handmade-tile company, Keymer Handmade Clay Tiles of Burgess Hill, Sussex, and East Sussex County Council. The project thus funded was able to finish the excavation of the kiln and drying shed, to reveal another building to the east of the kiln, to trial trench the flat, 'terraced' area which lies to the west between the 'shed' and the stream, to section the lynchet which appears on the 1982 survey of the site (Rudling, 1983) and to investigate a nearby iron bloomery furnace.

Roman Minepits, by J. H. D. Stapleton, published 1986 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 6, article, p.56, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

Two kilometres SSE of the Roman iron-working site on Great Cansiron Farm there is a string of quarry pits near and on the southern part of Cansiron Lane between TQ 442373 and TQ 438363.

A Bastardy Petition 1697 [at Hartfield], by Hylda Rawlings, published March 1986 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 7 nos. 3 & 4, article, p.120) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [MP 6277] & The Keep [LIB/501193] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

The Excavation of a Roman Tilery on Great Cansiron Farm, Hartfield, East Sussex, by David R. Rudling, Caroline Cartwright, Giles Swift, Sally Foster, John Shepherd, Pat Hinton and Fred Tebbutt, published November 1986 in Britannia (vol. 17, article, pp.191-230) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/501322]   View Online

During the winter of 1981/2 Giles Swift of the Wealden Iron Research Group discovered in a ploughed field on Great Cansiron Farm, Hartfield, East Sussex (TQ 45603835) an area of burnt clay and Roman tile, together with a few pieces of Roman pottery. The site, which lies close to a small stream, is located between an extensive Roman iron-working site to the south-west and possible large Roman iron-ore quarries to the north-east (FIG. 1). In advance of further plough damage, during the summer of 1982 the Field Archaeology Unit (Institute of Archaeology) undertook a trial excavation and survey in order to attempt to interpret and date the site more precisely. This work was funded by the Department of the Environment and East Sussex County Council. The 1982 investigations revealed a well-preserved Roman tile kiln and a rectangular floor of tile and burnt clay. Unfortunately extremely inclement weather during the second half of the excavation meant that it was impossible, given the time and resources available, to finish excavating either of these discoveries. The farmer, Mr Udell, kindly agreed to leave and plough around the excavation area and a second season of excavations was undertaken in 1983 thanks to the financial backing of East Sussex County Council and Keymer Handmade Clay Tiles of Burgess Hill, Sussex. In between the two excavations, staff of the Ancient Monuments Laboratory carried out a geophysical survey of the area to the west of the tile kiln.

Tugmore Shaw, Hartfield, by Giles Swift, published 1987 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 7, article, pp.21-24, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560]   Download PDF

The survey of this wood by R.G. Houghton, A.R.I.B.A. has been previously described. Particularly noted were the path made up with blast-furnace slag, which appeared to be contemporary with, or earlier than, the minepits; and the open-cast workings, which were suggested as possible sources of ore for the Roman iron working site at Great Cansiron.

Discovering the Philcoxes of Hartfield, by Gwen May née Philcox, published March 1988 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 1, article, pp.37-38) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A narrative history of the descendants of Thomas Philcox born 1671 in Battle and Sara Hadlar who married in 1699. Article covers the years 1671 - 1956 in the parish of Hartfield

Forest Camera: Portrait of Ashdown, by Peter Kirby and edited by Rosalind Bowlby, published 22 October 1988 (176 pp., Sweethaws Press, ISBN-10: 0951179551 & ISBN-13: 9780951179550) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503107] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

1821 Census: Hartfield, Sussex, published 1989 (booklet, PBN Publications) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11661]

East Sussex Census 1851 Index: Withyham, Hartfield & Lingfield (Surrey), by June C. Barnes, published 1990 (vol. 17, booklet, C. J. Barnes & printed at Battle Instant Print Ltd., ISBN-10: 1870264169) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503434] & East Sussex Libraries

Field Notes: A Bloomery at Upper Parrock, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1990 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 10, report, pp.2-3, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560]   Download PDF

A. A. Milne: His Life, by Ann Thwaite, published 4 June 1990 (608 pp., Faber & Faber, ISBN-10: 0571138888 & ISBN-13: 9780571138883) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

A study of the life of A.A.Milne, from his childhood, when he was educated at his father's school Henley House and taught by H.G.Wells, through his early days on "Granta" and "Punch", to the flowering of his careeer in the 1920s and 1930s. Milne wrote a series of West End plays, including "Mr Pim Passes By", and numbered among his friends P.G.Wodehouse and J.M.Barrie. It was for his son, born in 1920, that Milne wrote the four great children's books of his maturity: "When We Were Very Young", "Now We are Six", "Winnie the Pooh" and "The House at Pooh Corner". Revealing Milne's complexity, this biography tells of his strong political feelings, his often difficult personal relationships, and how his successful children's books became an almost intolerable burden. Ann Thwaite was awarded the 1990 Whitbread Biography of The Year for this book.

A. A. Milne: The Man Behind Winnie-the-Pooh, by Ann Thwaite, published 22 August 1990 (553 pp., New York: Random House, ISBN-10: 0394587243 & ISBN-13: 9780394587240) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

A.A. Milne is one of the most successful English writers ever. His heart-warming creations - Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Tigger and Piglet - have become some of the best-loved children's characters of all time, and readers the world over are familiar with the stories from the Hundred Acre Wood. Yet the man himself has remained an enigma. Although in many ways his behaviour was that of a typical golf-playing, pipe-smok-ing Englishman, Milne refused to be typecast, and his publishers despaired when he turned from writing popular columns for Punch to writing detective stories. They complained again when the detective writer presented them with a set of children's verse, but when When We Were Very Young became one of the best-selling books of all time, Milne's credibility as one of the world's favorite authors was sealed.

Religious Survey 1851 - East Grinstead district, edited by John A. Vickers, published August 1990 in The Religious Census of Sussex 1851 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 75, pp.59-65, 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

East Grinstead district incl. Withyham, Hartfield, Forest Row, Worth, Crawley & West Hoathly

Hartfield - Land Tax 1785, edited by Roger Davey, published 1991 in East Sussex Land Tax, 1785 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 77, pp.100-102, 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

Field notes: Three bloomeries at Parrock, Hartfield, Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1991 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 11, report, pp.2-7, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560]   Download PDF

The Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh: The story of A. A. Milne and his writing for children, by Ann Thwaite, published 12 October 1992 (192 pp., Methuen, ISBN-10: 0413667103 & ISBN-13: 9780413667106) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Begins with the birth of Winnie-the-Pooh's creator, A.A. Milne. Novelist and dramatist, he began writing poetry for children purely as a diversion. E.H. Shepherd illustrated a collection of his verse, "When We Were Very Young" in 1924, which marked the beginning of an exceptional association.

Harman or should they be Harmer?, by David L. N. Harman, published December 1994 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 4, article, pp.139-140) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

An account of the descendants of Richard and Clemencia Harman of East Grinstead. Richard was a mercer and he lived at Middle Row, East Grinstead, where his house still stands. In 1530 he was a part owner in Parrock's Iron Forge at Hartfield with others who were Flemings.

Field Notes: A bloomery in Hartfield, Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1995 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 15, report, pp.2-4, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506562]   Download PDF

Field Notes, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1995 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 15, report, pp.2-4, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506562]   Download PDF

Field Notes: A bloomery at Hartfield, Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1997 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 17, report, pp.2-8, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506564]   Download PDF

The Hudson Family of Hartfield, by Eric C. Byford, published September 1997 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 7, article, pp.247-248) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508814] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Extracts from the biography of Alfred James, known as Jim, Hudson (1901-1987), who grew up in Hartfield, and his wife Elsie Cripps.

Hartfield - 18c. Schools, edited by John Caffyn, published 1998 in Sussex Schools in the 18th Century (Sussex Record Society, vol. 81, p.124, 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 Cripps and Butcher Families of Hartfield, by Eric C. Byford, published June 1998 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 2, article, pp.65-66) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/508817] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Elsie, daughter of Ernest Cripps was born 12 July 1902 at Black Cottage, Parrock Lane, Hartfield and her mother's parents were John and Mary Butcher in whose cottage Elsie was born. Elsie married Jim Hudson on 13 April 1925 at Sevenoaks and they had one child, Oliver. Jim died 1987 and Elsie in 1989.

Field Notes: Four bloomeries in Hartfield, East Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2002 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 22, report, pp.2-5, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506569]   Download PDF

Field Notes: A possible Middle Iron Age bloomery in Hartfield and A bloomery site in Hartfield, East Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2006 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 26, report, pp.2-5, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506573]   Download PDF

The Sandles of Hartfield, by Celia Strachan, published December 2007 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 17 no. 8, article, pp.371-372) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508992] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Field Notes: Two bloomeries in Hartfield, 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

Field Notes: Chantler's Farm medieval bloomery site, Hartfield, 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

Wildene, a hitherto unidentified Domesday Book holding in Hartfield Hundred, by M. J. Leppard, published 2010 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 148, short article, p.253) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18613] & The Keep [LIB/500366] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Field Notes: A possible Saxon bloomery in Hartfield, East Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2010 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 30, report, pp.3-9, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506577]   Download PDF

Hartfield, St. Mary - Church monuments, edited by Nigel Llewellyn, published 2011 in East Sussex Church Monuments, 1530-1830 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 93, pp.155-158, 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 Hartfield, 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

Archaeological investigations on a pre-Roman Iron Age site at Whitepost Wood, nr. Holtye, Hartfield, East Sussex, by Simon Stevens, published 2013 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 33, article, pp.8-19, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507841]   Download PDF

Whitepost Wood lies between the settlements of Holtye and Blackham, at the junction of the A264 and the B2026, close to the border between East Sussex and Kent (TQ 5471 1391). Today the area is occupied by relatively dense mixed woodland, bisected by streams, which have cut deep channels into the underlying clay and sandstone geology, which lies close to the junction of the Ashdown Beds and Wadhurst Clay formations (BGS 2012) both of which are known to contain deposits of iron ore (Hodgkinson 2008a, 10).

Men of Ashdown Forest Who Fell in the First World War and are Commemorated at Forest Row, Hartfield and Coleman's Hatch, by Ashdown Forest Research Group, published 2014 accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507953]   Download PDF

A. A. Milne: His Life, by Ann Thwaite, published 2014 (originally published by Faber in 1990, xvi + 678 pp., London: Bello, ISBN-13: 9781447272038) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

A.A. Milne is one of the most successful English writers ever. His heart-warming creations have become some of the best-loved children's characters of all time, and readers the world over are familiar with the stories from the Hundred Acre Wood. In this biography, Ann Thwaite reveals the man behind Pooh in all his complexity.

1841 Census vol.19 - Hartfield and Withyham, published (no date) by PBN Publications (Ref: BPCU, CD-ROM)