Bibliography - Heathfield, Wealden District, East Sussex
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Parish of Heathfield, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. I, rape of Hastings, pp.573-577) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2396][Lib 3211] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500087] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

George Gilbert, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.76-79) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

Heathfield, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. I, pp.225-227, Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3314] & The Keep [LIB/500159]   View Online

On the Discovery of Natural Gas in East Sussex, by C. Dawson, published January 1898 in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (vol. 54, issue 1-4, article, pp.564-571)   View Online

The first record of the discovery of an inflammable natural gas in East Sussex is contained in Mr. Henry Willett's 13th Quarterly Report of the Subwealden Exploration (Netherfield), 1875. It is there stated that in making experiments on the temperature, etc. at various depths, and on lowering a light in the bore-tube, an explosion occurred. Strange oscillations in the depth of the water are reported to have been noticed, which at the time were attributed (inter alia) to the discharge of inflammable gases derived probably 'from the petroleum-bearing strata beneath' (the Kimeridge Clay).
Another discovery of inflammable natural gas occurred in the year 1895, when a deep artesian bore-tube (6 inches in diameter) was sunk in the stable-yard of the New Heathfield Hotel, close to the Heathfield Station of the London, Brighton, & South Coast Railway Company (Eastbourne & Tunbridge Wells Branch) in the parish of Waldron, East Sussex. At the depth of 228 feet, the foreman of the work noticed that the water which had been put down the borehole to assist the working of the tools was 'boiling.' As he was about to lower a candle to discover the cause, the gas arising from the bubbles caught fire, and burnt 'to about the height of a man.' Subsequently the foreman attached small tubes and ignited the gas at a distance of 15 yards from the borehole.

Note on Natural Gas at Heathfield Station (Sussex), by J. T. Hewitt, published January 1898 in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (vol. 54, issue 1-4, article, pp.572-574)   View Online

In a boring made for water some months ago at Heathfield Railway-station (L. B. & S. C. R.) an outflow of natural gas was encountered. A cap provided with a cock was placed at the outlet of the boring, and thus the collection of a sample of the gas for analysis was an easy matter. Owing to the courtesy of Mr. R. J. Billinton, the Locomotive Engineer of the London, Brighton, & South Coast Railway, who not only gave me the necessary permission, but also placed every facility at my disposal, I was enabled to take a sample of the gas on Dec. 31st, 1897. Mr. Billinton further informed me that a bed of lignite had been encountered at a depth of about 300 feet; this was of considerable thickness, and was supposed to be the stratum in which the gas had its origin. He very kindly provided me with a specimen of this substance, which one can perhaps better regard as a shale; this also was analysed.

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

Heathfield Memorials, by Perceval Lucas, published 1910 (xiii + 201 pp., London: Arthur L. Humphreys) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503839] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The geology of the country around Heathfield, Sussex: With report of excursion to Heathfield, Brightling, Netherfield and Robertsbridge. Saturday, June 4th, 1921, by Henry B. Milner, M.A., F.G.S., published 1922 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 33 issue 2, article, pp.142-151)   View Online

The country visited embraces an area extending from Heathfield eastwards to the main Tunbridge Wells-Hastings Road, a distance of ten miles, being naturally defined to the north by the high ground of Burwash, and to the south by the ridge on which Dallington and Netherfield are situated. In this comparatively small portion of the central Weald the geology is of exceptional interest, presenting as it does features of stratigraphical, tect onic and economic importance.

Notes on the Situation of Horeappeltre Common, Heathfield, by D. Macleod, published 1925 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 66, notes & queries, pp.233-234) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2151] & The Keep [LIB/500284] & S.A.S. library

Gun Founding at Heathfield in the XVIII Century, by Herbert Blackman, published 1926 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 67, article, pp.25-54) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2152] & The Keep [LIB/500285] & S.A.S. library

Some Heathfield Place-Names, by D. Macleod, published May 1926 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 2, article, pp.40-41) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

Some Heathfield Place-Names, by D. Macleod, published August 1926 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 3, article, pp.72-74) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

Some Heathfield Place-Names, by D. Macleod, published November 1926 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 4, article, pp.102-105) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

Church Fields and Parish Churches [at Waldron, Heathfield and Warbleton], by D. Macleod, published February 1927 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 5, note, pp.148-149) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

Sussex and the U.S.A. 8 - The Rev. Robert Hunt, First Minister in Virginia, by David McLean, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 11, article, pp.981-987) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500173]

Hawkesborough , by D. Macleod, published February 1930 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 1, note, p.29) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

Walks in Unfamiliar Sussex. I - To Punnetts Town in search of Spring, by Raymond C. Chandler, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 5, article, pp.292-295) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

From Tunbridge Wells to Eastbourne via Heathfield, by C. F. Wells, published May 1950 in Railway Magazine (article, pp.291-307)   Download PDF

Cade's Stone, Heathfield, by L. F. Salzman, F.S.A., published November 1953 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII nos. 15 & 16, article, pp.313-314) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & S.A.S. library

Pottens or Parsons Mill, by N. C. Smith, published May 1964 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 3, note, pp.104-105) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

A Romano-British Bloomery in Heathfield, by Charles S. Cattell, published May 1969 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVII no. 3, note, pp.101-103) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8235] & The Keep [LIB/500219] & S.A.S. library

Bloomeries in the upper (east) Rother basin, by C. S. Cattell, published Spring 1972 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No 3, article, p.13) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

A Guide to Heathfield Park, by Gerald Moore, published 1973 (8 pp., published by the author) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502775] & East Sussex Libraries

Heathfield Furnace and Founders, by Joe Pettitt, published Summer 1973 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 6, note, p.13) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

Much is known about the 'New' Furnace at Heathfield, because the Fuller documents have survived in quantity. But where was the 'Old' Furnace? The Lists of 1574 show a William Relfe holding a furnace in Heathfield. Where was it? Some of the Lists indicate that there were other water powered sites in Heathfield held by Sir Richard Baker and by Thomas Stollion. Is there a detective in the area?

Heathfield Emigrants to America, 1830-31, by Michael J. Burchall, published December 1976 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 2 no. 7, article, pp.242-244) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7966] & The Keep [LIB/501254] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

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

One Church, one faith, one Lord: a short history of Union Church, Heathfield, by John Weller, published 1979 (81 pp., Heathfield: Union Church) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

A Preaching Diary of George Gilbert of Heathfield, by Neil Caplan, published September 1980 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 2 no. 2, article, pp.72-74) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8671] & The Keep [LIB/501188] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

The name of George Gilbert deserves to be better-known in the annals of Sussex religious dissent because he played so great a part in the religious revival in Sussex during his sixty years of ministry at Heathfield from 1767 to 1827

Field Group Report: Heathfield, compiled by C. F. Tebbutt, published 1981 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 1, report, pp.20-23) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

Income and Production at Heathfield Ironworks 1693-1788, by Richard Saville, published 1982 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 2, article, pp.36-62) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

This analysis covers several aspects of the operation of Heathfield blast furnace and gun-boring plant from 1693 to 1788.1 It is based on papers in the Fuller family collection, lately held by the Sussex Archaeological Society and the East Sussex Record Office and now housed together in the record office in Pelham House, Lewes. Several of the papers have only recently been discovered and are discussed here for the first time. The family records have been supplemented by the details of payments for iron ordnance and shot purchased by the Board of Ordnance, the records of which are kept in the Public Record Office at Kew and Chancery Lane, London.

Field Notes: Two forays in the West Hoathly/Ardingly area, published 1983 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 3, report, pp.2-5) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

The History of Heathfield: Outline & Reading List, compiled by Bernard Guile, published 1984 (12 pp., Hesthfield: Heatfield & Waldron Community Association) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Heathfield - The Growth of the High Street, by V. M. Taylor, published 1984 (32 pp., Heathfield: Heathfield and Waldron Community Association) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Heathfield - The Railway & After - A Century of Change, by V. M. Taylor, published 1984 (70 pp., Heathfield: Heathfield and Waldron Community Association) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Heathfield - A Stroll Around Old Heathfield, by Violet Taylor and Rosemary Brown, published 1984 (15 pp., Heathfield: Heathfield and Waldron Community Association) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502822] & East Sussex Libraries

Merrydown: forty years, by Graeme Wright, published 1 January 1988 (127 pp., Heathfield: Merrydown Wine PLC, ISBN-10: 0951347004 & ISBN-13: 9780951347003) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

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

Heathfield People: A Miscellany, by Elizabeth Doff and Brenda Gardner, published 1989 (33 pp., published by the authors) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502776] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

East Sussex Census 1851 Index: Hellingly, Chiddingly, Laughton,Warbleton, Heathfield, by June C. Barnes, published May 1989 (vol. 10, booklet, 104 pp., C. J. Barnes & printed at Battle Instant Print Ltd., ISBN-10: 187026410X & ISBN-13: 9781870264105) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11239] & The Keep [LIB/503432] & East Sussex Libraries

Heathfield Furnace Site Survey 1989, by R. G. Houghton and J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1990 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 10, article, pp.3-6, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560]   Download PDF

The WIRG Field Group visited the site (TQ 600186) on three occasions. Heathfield was one of the most important sites in the Weald in the eighteenth century but it has suffered considerable depredation and Cleere and Crossley's description (1985: p.335) requires little amendment

Religious Survey 1851 - Hailsham district, edited by John A. Vickers, published August 1990 in The Religious Census of Sussex 1851 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 75, pp.35-43, 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

Hailsham district incl. Herstmonceux, Wartling, Hooe, Ninfield, Hellingly, Chiddingly, Laughton, Warbleton & Heathfield

Heathfield - Land Tax 1785, edited by Roger Davey, published 1991 in East Sussex Land Tax, 1785 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 77, pp.103-106, 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

The Punnett's Town, Heathfield, Wind Saw Mills, by J. S. P. Buckland, published 1991 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 21, article, pp.9-15, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506526]   Download PDF

The Smock Saw Mill. Wind saw mills were such rarities in England that this one earned a mention in Kelly, (1887). "At Punnetts Town is an adaptation of wind power the situation being high; the power is utilized by Samuel Piper, a builder, to drive a saw mill constructed as an ordinary wind mill."

Around Heathfield in Old Photographs: A Second Selection, by Alan Gillet and Barry K. Russell, published 21 November 1991 (160 pp., Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN-10: 0862999502 & ISBN-13: 9780862999506) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

An Earthwork at Tottingworth, Heathfield, by Mark Gardiner, published 1993 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 131, article, pp.68-72) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12210] & The Keep [LIB/500300] & S.A.S. library

Possible bloomery site in the upper Rother valley, by John Mew, published 1994 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 14, article, pp.4-5, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506561]   Download PDF

Pottens Mill (TQ 614242) was formerly called Parsons Mill (1737). It was recorded as a messuage in 1540, and as 'Brailsham' in 1623. The mill itself was demolished at the beginning of the twentieth century, and stood beside a tributary running north to join the river Rother. The present house was rebuilt in 1737, probably on the site of a 15th century hall house, and I am very grateful to David and Barbara Martin for their interest and especially for this information.
The possible bloomery site was first identified by C. S. Cattell in 1970, as being at TQ 6130 2365, 500m to the south of Pottens Mill. The ground rises to the south of the site, to a height of 178m at Tottingworth Park. Earthworks at Tottingworth were considered by both Dawson and Allcroft to have been Iron Age, but recent work by Gardiner would suggest that some parts are no later than medieval. A polished late neolithic flint axe (Norris, curator Sx. Arch. Soc.) was found at Pottens Mill in 1969.

Heathfield School: The First Fifty Years 1899-1949, by F. J. Maylin, published June 1994 (39 pp., Heathfield School, ISBN-10: 095236610X & ISBN-13: 9780952366102) accessible at: British Library

Heathfield Park. A private estate and a Wealden town, by Roy Pryce, published 1996 (204 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0952809303 & ISBN-13: 9780952809302) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503837] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Field Notes: Two Romano-British bloomeries at Heathfield, 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 supply of raw materials to the Heathfield ironworks, by C. H. C. Whittick, published 1997 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 17, article, pp.46-47, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506564]   Download PDF

The editors of the Fuller correspondence expressed surprise at letters which seemed to suggest that charcoal was carried to the family's furnace at Heathfield from Newick, a distance of approximately ten miles.
It can however be demonstrated that the Newick to which the letters refer is not the parish north of Lewes but Newick Farm in Heathfield, a little over two miles north of the furnace.

Heathfield - 18c. Schools, edited by John Caffyn, published 1998 in Sussex Schools in the 18th Century (Sussex Record Society, vol. 81, pp.129-130, 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

Field Notes: Bloomery slag at Heathfield, Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1998 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 18, report, pp.2-7, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506565]   Download PDF

Field Notes: A Romano-British Bloomery at Heathfield, Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1999 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 19, report, p.2, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506566]   Download PDF

Looking behind the Registers, by Don Burgess, published March 1999 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 13 no. 5, article, pp.166-168) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14880] & The Keep [LIB/508820] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Research into the burial registers of Heathfield

An unusual type of slag at Heathfield, by B. C. Worssam, published 2000 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 20, article, pp.12-13, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506567]   Download PDF

At the Romano-British Tilsmore Wood, Heathfield, bloomery site (TQ 5763 2174), visited in January 1999, some slag fragments attracted attention by reason of their brassy-yellow metallic lustre, rather like that of freshly-broken pyrite (iron sulphide), except that pyrite surfaces would be expected to tarnish rapidly once exposed to the air.

Heathfield and Waldron: An Illustrated History, by Roy Pryce, published 1 April 2000 (36 pp., Heathfield & Waldron Parish Council, ISBN-10: 0953834409 & ISBN-13: 9780953834402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502803] & East Sussex Libraries

Chapel History 1769-2000: A history of the Heathfield Chapel, by Brian Hamper, published 2002 (published by the author)

Field Notes: A bloomery in Heathfield, 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

What's in a name? (1), by Helen M. Whittle, published December 2003 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 15 no. 8, article, pp.363-364) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15249] & The Keep [LIB/508827] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A list of Puritan names from Heathfield and Warbleton parish registers and gives baptism dates, names and names of parents.

Puritan Names in Heathfield and Warbleton (Sussex) Parish Registers, by H. M. Whittle, published 2004 in Genealogists' Magazine (vol. 28, part 2, article, pp.54-56)

Field Notes: Two bloomeries in Heathfield, East Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2004 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 24, report, pp.2-5, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506571]   Download PDF

Bungehurst Furnace, Heathfield, by R. G. Houghton and J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2005 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 25, article, pp.19-2, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506572]   Download PDF

There is considerable confusion in published sources as to the location of what is known as Bungehurst Furnace. Straker, using latitude and longitude, located it at about TQ 6013 2359, while in Cleere and Crossley it is recorded at TQ 600239.1 While the navigational reference given by Straker appears to be incorrect, his description matches the site which is the subject of this survey. The description given by Cleere and Crossley, which was drawn from notes made following a visit by the Field Group in October 1973, appears to be of another site, all evidence of which seems to have been removed or covered over, for when the site was revisited in December 2002 nothing of it could be found. It would seem that there had been two blast furnace sites on the stream that joins the Rother at Scotsford Bridge.
The site of Bungehurst Furnace lies near the northern edge of Newick Wood, at TQ 5992 2357, on a north-flowing tributary of the River Rother.

On the Edge: The Story of Punnetts Town, by M. Beswick, published 2006 (44 pp.) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503007] & East Sussex Libraries

Braylsham Castle, Sussex, by Amicia De Moubray, published 22 February 2007 in Country Life (vol. 201 no. 8, article, pp.78-83)

Old Heathfield and Cade Street in the 19th Century, by Shineen Galloway and others, published 2008 (204 pp., Old Heathfield and Cade Street Society) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503838] & British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Field Notes: Two bloomery sites in Heathfield & Waldron, 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

Heathfield, Historic Character Assessment Report, compiled by Roland B. Harris, published May 2008 (Sussex Extensive Urban Survey (EUS), 32 pp. + appendices, E.S.C.C., W.S.C.C. & Brighton and Hove City, funded by English Heritage)   Download PDF

Field Notes: A bloomery site in Heathfield, 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

Heathfield, All Saints - Church monuments, edited by Nigel Llewellyn, published 2011 in East Sussex Church Monuments, 1530-1830 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 93, pp.165-168, 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

Heathfield Natural Gas, by John Blackwell, published 2013 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 43, article, pp.11-19, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/43] & The Keep [LIB/507840]   Download PDF

Looking behind the Registers, by Don Burgess, published March 2013 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 20 no. 5, article, pp.213-215) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508976] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

From time to time I help ESRO by putting some transcripts of parish registers on to disk. This usually brings to light a number of interesting facts other than the entries themselves. I have recently spent time on the early Heathfield Registers, and was not disappointed. For example, between December 19th and January 11th 1603/4 there were seven entries of people who were 'buried in the fields'. Why, I thought, were these burials done thus?

Heathfield Story in New York Public Library, by Frances Stenlake, published June 2014 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 21 no. 2, article, pp.80-85) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508981]

What a surprise discovery while preparing a talk to the Uckfield Family History Group: photographs to do with Heathfield in New York Public Library! These form part of the Schwimmer/Lloyd collection: Rosika SCHWIMMER was a Hungarian women's rights activist, journalist, pacifist and diplomat; her friendship with American peace campaigner Lola LLOYD began after the outbreak of the First World War when SCHWIMMER was touring the United States putting the case for a non-military solution to the conflict.
The photographs of particular interest to Heathfield date from the years before the War and tell a story little known in the area - about the DRYSDALEs of Cherry Croft, situated to the east of Heathfield, beyond Broad Oak, towards Burwash.

Land adjoining Tilsmore Lodge, Mount Pleasant, Heathfield (NGR: TQ57202155) - desk-based assessment and geophysical survey reports, by Nora Bermingham, Kyle Beaverstock and Tim Dawson, published February 2016 (Reading: Thames Valley Archaeological Services)   View Online

Heathfield Parish Register, published (no date) by the Sussex Family History Group and Parish Register Transcription Society (Ref: SXE74, CD-ROM)

Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1581-1753 Vol.No.74 transcribed by SFHG member Beverly Roth (USA)

1841 Census vol.14 - Heathfield area, published (no date) by PBN Publications (Ref: BPCP, CD-ROM)