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Parish of North Chapel, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. II, rape of Arundel, pp.182-183) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2397][Lib 3212] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500088] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

North-Chapel, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. II, pp.66-67, 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 North Chapel, published 1876 (article, London: H.M.S.O. & printed at George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)   View Online

Piper's Copse E.I.A. Camp, by G. H. Kenyon, published November 1954 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 3 & 4, note, pp.59-60) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

Piper's Copse Camp, Northchapel, by G. H. Kenyon, published May 1969 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVII no. 3, note, p.105) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8235] & The Keep [LIB/500219] & S.A.S. library

Autobiography of Charles Adsett, 1826, by Roy Adsett, published March 1974 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 1 no. 4, article, pp.102-105) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7965] & The Keep [LIB/501253] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

George Adsett was born in North Chaple in 1826 and emigrated with his parents in 1832 to Canada.

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

Northchapel - 18c. Schools, edited by John Caffyn, published 1998 in Sussex Schools in the 18th Century (Sussex Record Society, vol. 81, pp.207-208, 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

Frith Furnace, Northchapel - Site Survey 1999, by R. G. Houghton and J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1999 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 19, article, pp.30-33, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506566]   Download PDF

This site was first surveyed for the Wealden Iron Research Group by Peter Ovenden in 1972, although the estimated length of the bay was later revised. As part of a continuing programme to make measured survey drawings of water-powered furnaces and forges, the site was resurveyed in January and February 1999. Frith is an extensive site with large quantities of blast furnace slag confirming a working life in excess of a hundred years. The streams which fed the pond for the furnace, rise in springs at the foot of Blackdown, less than a mile to the west of the site, and downstream provided power for three other ironworks: Shillinglee Furnace, Mitchell Park Forge and Wassell Forge.

Northchapel: A Parish History, by Pamela Bruce, published 1 June 2000 (160 pp., Northchapel Parish Council, ISBN-10: 0953829103 & ISBN-13: 9780953829101) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14176] & West Sussex Libraries

Noah Mann of Northchapel (1756-1789): a local hero, by Janet Pennington, published Autumn 2000 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 66, article, pp.2-6) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/66] & The Keep [LIB/500490]

Did Elizabeth Barnes marry her brother?, by Joan Barnes, published December 2012 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 20 no. 4, article, pp.149-153) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508975] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Henry and Elizabeth BARNES were my husband's great great grandparents. Henry BARNES was baptised on March 26, 1780 in Northchapel - the sixth child and third son of John BARNES (1743-1814) and Mary PHILP (1744-1811). Henry first drew himself to public attention when Ann LILLYWHITE of Northchapel took out a bastardy order against him in April 1801. He was adjudged to be responsible for her pregnancy and ordered to pay expenses towards her lying-in. Henry finally paid his dues in December 1802. Because I have been unable to trace the birth of a child to Ann I suspect that the child may have been stillborn. Henry does not appear to have been implicated when Ann had another illegitimate child a few years later.

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.

Northchapel Parish Register, published (no date) by the Sussex Family History Group and Parish Register Transcription Society (Ref: SXW56, CD-ROM)

Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1716-1901, Banns 1754-1901. Vol.56. Indexed Transcription. Includes seven external photographs.