Bibliography - Northiam, Rother District, East Sussex
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Parish of Northiam, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. I, rape of Hastings, pp.516-518) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2396][Lib 3211] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500087] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Northiam, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. II, pp.62-66, 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 Northiam, published 1874 (article, London: H.M.S.O. & printed at George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)   View Online

Adams' Illustrated Guide to Rye, with map, Winchelsea, Northiam, Camber-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood, by Joseph Adams, published 1907 (published by the author)   View Online

A History of Brickwall in Sussex and of the Parishes of Northiam and Brede, by A. L. Frewen, published 1909 (London: George Allen & Sons) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503761]

Dixter, Northiam. A Fifteenth Century Timber Manor House, by John E. Ray, published 1909 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 52, article, pp.132-155) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2137] & The Keep [LIB/500270] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Northiam, by R. Thurston Hopkins, published 1921 in Kipling's Sussex (Chapter II, pp.49-57, London: Simkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16008][Lib 17091] & The Keep [LIB/504753] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Scratch Dials at Northiam Church , by J. W. Batterham, published February 1926 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 1, note, p.23) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

A Northiam Parish Survey, by Nathaniel Lloyd, published August 1927 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 7, note, pp.228-229) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

The little guide to the parish church of St. Mary, Northiam, Sussex, by Arthur S. Haynes, published 1928 (20 pp. & 4 plates, Northiam) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library   View Online

Northiam, by R. Thurston Hopkins, published 1929 in Kipling's Sussex Revisited (pp.183-189, London: H. Jenkins Ltd) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15871][Lib 17092] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Historic Houses of Sussex - Great Dixter, Northiam, by Viscountess Wolseley, published 1929 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. III no. 1, article, pp.6-12) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2307] & The Keep [LIB/500139]

John Wesley and his Sussex Friends. II - Northiam, Robertsbridge and Ewhurst, by Edmund Austen, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 8, article, pp.655-661) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500173]

Historic Houses of Sussex - Church House, Northiam, by Viscountess Wolseley, published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 1, article, pp.5-9) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

Historic Houses of Sussex - Silverden Hall, Northiam, by Viscountess Wolseley, published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 6, article, pp.380-384) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

Historic Houses of Sussex - The Well House, Northiam, by Viscountess Wolseley, published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 8, article, pp.509-513) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

Sussex Church Plans XX: St Mary, Northiam , by Walter H. Godfrey, published May 1933 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IV no. 5, article, pp.138-140) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2203][Lib 8222][Lib 8861] & The Keep [LIB/500206] & S.A.S. library

Historic Houses of Sussex - Domons, Northiam, by Viscountess Wolseley, published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 1, article, pp.6-10) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500179]

The little guide to the parish church of St. Mary, Northiam, Sussex, by Arthur S. Haynes, published 1939 (2nd edition, 20 pp. & 4 plates, Northiam) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Rye, Winchelsea & Northiam : handbook and guide : the official handbook of the borough of Rye, by Leopold Amon Vidler and W. MacLean Homan, published 1951 (8th edition, Rye: Adams & Son) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Rye, Winchelsea & Northiam : handbook and guide : the official handbook of the borough of Rye, by Leopold Amon Vidler and W. MacLean Homan, published 1954 (9th edition, Rye: Adams & Son) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Rye, Winchelsea & Northiam : handbook and guide : the official handbook of the borough of Rye, by Leopold Amon Vidler and W. MacLean Homan, published 1955 (10th edition, 88 pp., Rye: Adams & Son) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Northiam Glass Furnace, by V. F. M. Oliver, B.A., published November 1955 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 7 & 8, article, pp.115-116) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

O Rare Norgam: an East Sussex village and its story [Northiam], by Winifred L. Davis, published 1965 (96 pp., published by the author) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502965] & East Sussex Libraries

Sir Stephen Glynne's Notes on Churches: Jevington, Northiam, Ore, Peasmarsh, Pett, Playden, Rye, Salehurst, Salehurst, Sedlescombe, Ticehurst, by the late V. J. Torr, published November 1967 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 10, article, pp.339-349) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

The Ewhurst/Northiam Furnaces, by C. F. Tebbutt, published 1977 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 12, report, p.2) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

"An Undoubted Jewel": a case study of five Sussex country houses, 1880-1914, by P. Blackwell, published 1981 in Southern History (vol. 3, article, pp.183-200)

The five houses are Petworth House, Goodwood House, Brickwall [in Northiam], Ashburnham Place, and Coombe Place [in Hamsey].

O Rare Norgam: Part 2 an East Sussex village and its story [Northiam] brought up to date, by Winifred L. Davis, published 1982 (48 pp., published by the author) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502965] & East Sussex Libraries

Harlot's Wood, Northiam, by Richard Coates, published 1987 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 125, historical note, p.251) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9994] & The Keep [LIB/500304] & S.A.S. library

East Sussex Census 1851 Index: Peasmarsh, Beckley, Northiam, Brede, Udimore, Icklesham, Winchelsea., by June C Barnes, published March 1987 (vol. 2, booklet, 96 pp., C. J. Barnes & printed at Battle Instant Print Ltd., ISBN-10: 1870264010 & ISBN-13: 9781870264013) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11231] & The Keep [LIB/503431] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

What Got Me Hooked?, by Olive Isabel Thompson née Parsons, published June 1987 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 5, article, pp.169-170) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

James Parsons (1779-1845) and Mary Vincett (1782 - 1863) had ten children. Article covers the years 1696 - 1845 in the parishes of Northiam and Beckley

The Late Madam Frewen of Brickwall, Her Book of Receipts: collected by herself and from her several friends AD 1750 or thereabouts [Northiam], by Mary Frewen, published 1988 accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502970]

How I discovered my Sussex Ancestry, by Susan Bailey née Luxford, published June 1988 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 2, article, pp.59-60) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Research into the family of Henry and Emily Luxford who married in November 1848 at High Halden in Kent, had ten children and emigrated to Victoria, Australia. Henry's parents were William Luxford and Mary Cheeseman of Northam, Sussex. Article covers the period 1796 - 1902 in the parish of Northiam and Victoria, Australia

Religious Survey 1851 - Rye district, edited by John A. Vickers, published August 1990 in The Religious Census of Sussex 1851 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 75, pp.4-6, 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

Rye district incl. Playden, Iden, Peasmarsh, Beckley, Northiam, Brede, Udimore, Winchelsea & Icklesham

Picture Book of Old Northiam, by Lis Rigby, published 7 December 1990 (48 pp., Meresborough Books, ISBN-10: 0948193492 & ISBN-13: 9780948193491) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503465] & West Sussex Libraries

Northiam - Land Tax 1785, edited by Roger Davey, published 1991 in East Sussex Land Tax, 1785 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 77, pp.162-165, 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

Great Dixter, Sussex, by Charles Hind, published 2 November 1995 in Country Life (vol. 189 no. 44, article, pp.50-55)

Northiam - 18c. Schools, edited by John Caffyn, published 1998 in Sussex Schools in the 18th Century (Sussex Record Society, vol. 81, pp.208-209, 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

Northiam compilation: from street directories between 1867-1938, by R. A. Longley, published 2008 (CD-ROM, published by the author, ISBN-13: 9781906505516)

Time was : memories & anecdotes of a bygone age : recollections of growing up in Northiam, 1905 to 1926, by Jack Vidler, published 2009 (2 volumes, London: Mollie Grant and Kathleen Upton) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502964][Lib/502969] & East Sussex Libraries

pt. 1. Including the village, transport, farming, hops and the forge, wheelwright, bakehouse and mill
pt. 2. Including the scouts, electricity, radio, the cinema, St Mary's Church, houses (Great Dixter, The Farthings and Brickwall), school, Sunday school and work.

Northiam, St. Mary - Church monuments, edited by Nigel Llewellyn, published 2011 in East Sussex Church Monuments, 1530-1830 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 93, pp.239-244, 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

Land at The Paddock, Northiam (NGR: TQ82712511) - evalution and geophysical survey reports, by Tim Dawson, Sean Wallis and Felicity Thompson, published March 2015 (Reading: Thames Valley Archaeological Services)   View Online