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Parish of Lurgashall or Lurgarsale, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. II, rape of Arundel, pp.181-182) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2397][Lib 3212] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500088] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Lurgashall, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. II, pp.36-37, Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3315] & The Keep [LIB/500158]   View Online

Ordnance Survey Book of Reference to the plan of the Parish of Lurgashall, published 1876 (article, London: H.M.S.O. & printed at George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)   View Online

Lurgashall Clerk's Fee, by D. Philipson-Stow, published 1924 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 65, notes & queries, pp.255-257) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2150] & The Keep [LIB/500283] & S.A.S. library

Ludgershall , by L. F. Salzman, published November 1931 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 8, article, pp.256-257) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

Valewood Farm, the residence of Mr Oliver Hill, by Country Life contributor(s), published 21 September 1935 in Country Life (article)

Sussex Church Plans XXXVII: St Lawrence, Lurgashall , by Walter H. Godfrey, published August 1936 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 3, article, pp.86-87) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library

The Manor of River [in Tillington and Lurgashall], by L. F. salzman, F.S.A., published August 1941 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VIII no. 7, article, pp.193-196) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8865][Lib 2207] & The Keep [LIB/500210] & S.A.S. library

Lurgashall, Sussex : 17th century cloisters or coggia : "A Sussex Church", by Country Life contributor(s), published 30 November 1945 in Country Life (article, p.964)

Lurgashall: an old Sussex Parish, by G. R. Rolston and Dorothy F. P. Heathcote, published 1950 (19 pp., published by the authors) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4271] & West Sussex Libraries

Field Notes: Lurgashall, Sussex, published 1985 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 5, report, pp.2-8, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506559]   Download PDF

No Problems?, by Stanley Excell, published September 1986 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 2, article, p.74) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Enticknapp is pronounced Emlett in 1867 in Lurgashall, Sussex. Census enumerator had no problem with it but family historians may. Article covers the years 1861 - 1867 in the parish of Lurgeshall

The Adsetts of Lurgashall, by Roy Adsett, published December 1986 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 3, article, pp.87-89) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A family tree is given showing the descendants of Henry Adsett (1805-1878) and Catherine Childs, and their daughter Ellen who married James Anscomb who provides the posterity. Article covers the years 1805 - 1966.

Religious Survey 1851 - Midhurst district, edited by John A. Vickers, published August 1990 in The Religious Census of Sussex 1851 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 75, pp.173-182, 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

Midhurst district incl. Woolavington, Tillington, Lodsworth, Selham, Cocking, Woolbeding, Easebourne, Fernhurst, Lurgashall, North Chapel, Linchmere, Linch, Harting, Stedham, Iping, Chithurst, Terwick & Rogate

A View of Edwardian Lurgashall, by H. S. Roots, published 2000 (Petworth: The Window Press) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Prefaced by Peter Jerrome the book contains the recollections of Harold Roots, who having left the village in his youth looks back many years later to a period before The Great War when Lurgashall was still very much a self-contained community, enjoying a pace of life matched by the relative isolation of the village. Roots has a remarkable power of recall which enables him to transport the reader on a virtual tour of the village that he left many decades earlier. While the characters that Roots knew as a child have long gone, these recollections are witness not as one would expect to how much has changed in the village during the twentieth century but rather how little the outside world has encroached upon it.

A Study into the Origins and Descendants of the Lurgashall Chalwins, by Roger Albert Chalwin, published 2002 (booklet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14787]

A Richer Dust: the Lurgashall War Memorial, by Michael Oakland, published 2007 (218 pp., Studio Gallery Publications, ISBN-10: 095423572X & ISBN-13: 9780954235727) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15814] & West Sussex Libraries

The Baigents and Lurgashall Mill, by Peter Baigent, published December 2010 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 4, article, pp.155-157) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508845] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The talk by Derek Stidder on 'Mills and millers of Sussex" at the SFHG Conference in March reminded me that some of my ancestors had been employed at Lurgashall Mill in the 18th century. Thanks to a recent visit to the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton and help from museum staff I have been able to elucidate my family's involvement with the mill.
The mill, now to be found in the museum, was originally situated on the Western Rother, in the parish of Lurgashall, part of the Cowdray Estate. This is an area in the high weald of Sussex, where the soil is composed of thick and impermeable clay and in late summer the streams and ponds tend to dry up. However in Lurgashall and other nearby villages there is group of sandstone beds that provide shallow wells for farms and cottages. Lurgashall Mill was situated beside a substantial pond that had existed for many years before the mill was built for Viscount Montague. The structure of the mill suggests it was built around the middle of the 17th century.
My family's involvement with milling appears to have started when one of my very distant uncles, Michael BAIGENT, baptised December 1719 in Easebourne, decided to go and work at Lurgashall Mill.

A Revisited History of the Eade Family: Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire 1250-1990, by Robyn Lane and Andrew Eade, published 30 November 2014 (408 pp., Hampshire: John Owen Smith, Headley Down, ISBN-10: 1873855699 & ISBN-13: 9781873855690) accessible at: British Library

We follow the fortunes of the Eade family over seven and a half centuries as, with an eye for the main chance, they attempt to climb the ladder of prosperity by constructing, amassing and then protecting their land holdings over the centuries while diversifying into trades such as bricklaying and stonemasonry. From 13th century Chiddingfold in Surrey they spilled over the adjacent county border into West Sussex around Northchapel and Lurgashall and then into Bramshott and Headley in Hampshire via the Sussex settlement of Linchmere, relentless- ly pursuing their aspirations. When all of this eventually began to unravel in the Hampshire village of Hawkley at the end of the 18th century, family fortunes stuttered on for a while with a Market Garden Business located in Petersfield. However it was courtesy of the empire's Armed Forces that poverty was staved off and Eades visited much of the globe then marked pink. The available records provide a fascinating glimpse into past times throughout the centuries where events such as the plague, diseases, war and market downturns make their indelible mark on a family line that survives to this day.

St Lawrence's Church, Lurgashall, by A. C. Sharman, published (no date) (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3603]

Lurgashall Parish Register, published (no date) by the Sussex Family History Group and Parish Register Transcription Society (Ref: SXW156, CD-ROM)

Baptisms 1559-1901, Marriages 1559-1900, Burials 1573-1900. Indexed Transcription. Vol.156. Includes 41 photographs.