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Parish of Patcham, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. I, rape of Lewes, pp.173-174) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2396][Lib 3211] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500087] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Patcham alias Pecham, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. II, pp.77-78, 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 Patcham and the Parish of Falmer, published 1874 (article, London: H.M.S.O. & printed at George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)   View Online

Mural Painting of the Doom at Patcham Church, Sussex, by C. E. Keyser, M.A., F.S.A., published 1881 in The Archaeological Journal (vol. 38, article, pp.80-95)   View Online

Mural Painting of the Doom at Patcham Church, Sussex, by J. G. Waller, published 1881 in The Archaeological Journal (vol. 38, article, pp.96-97)   View Online

Recently Discovered Fresco at Patcham Church, Sussex, by G. R. Wright, F.S.A., published June 1884 in Journal of the British Archaeological Association (first series, vol 40, issue 2, article, pp.182-184)   View Online

A Roman Glass Inkpot Found at Patcham, Sussex, by A. F. Griffith, M.A., published 1912 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 55, article, pp.63-73) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2140] & The Keep [LIB/500273] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The "Doom" in Patcham Church, by Rev. James Holroyde, vicar, published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 12, article, pp.529-532) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]

Patcham Church and the 'Way to Heaven', by The Hon. Lady Cust, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 3, article, pp.170-174) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500177]

Ancient Ponds at Patcham, by H. S. Toms, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 8, article, pp.486-490) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500178]

The Welesmere Quest, by H. S. Toms, published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 6, article, pp.366-368) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500179]

The Destruction of Eastwick Pond, by H. S. Toms, published 1936 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. X no. 5, article, pp.320-322) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2315][Lib 9331] & The Keep [LIB/500181]

The Tegdown Barrow, by E. Cecil Curwen, M.A., M.B., F.S.A., published November 1937 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 8, article, pp.225-227) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library

"The Smugglers' Track", near Patcham, by H. S. Toms, published 1938 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XII no. 1, article, pp.55-58) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2317] & The Keep [LIB/500183]

The Old Barns of Sussex [at Patcham, Newick, West Blatchington and Alciston], by Country Life contributor(s), published 11 June 1938 in Country Life (article, pp.598-599)

Parish of Patcham, edited by L. F. Salzman, published 1940 in The Victoria History of the County of Sussex (vol. 7: The Rape of Lewes, pp.216-220, London: Victoria County History, ISBN-10: 0712905898 & ISBN-13: 9780712905893) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7398] & The Keep [LIB/500082] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

An Elastic Barn [at Patcham], published 10 March 1955 in Country Life (article, p.687)

Nos. 30 and 31, Church Hill, Patcham, by R. T. Mason, published May 1964 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 3, article, pp.92-93) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

Excavations at Hollingbury Camp, Sussex, 1967-1969, by John Holmes, published 1984 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 122, article, pp.29-54) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9140] & The Keep [LIB/500309] & S.A.S. library

Changes in Brighton and Hove's Suburbs: Preston and Patcham, 1841-1871, by Sue Farrant, published January 1985 (84 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0951022504 & ISBN-13: 9780951022504) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502586]

Man's Estates: Adam Nicolson's personal perspective on three Sussex parks [Petworth, Goodwood, Parham], by Adam Nicholson, published 1987 (article) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9966]

A Genealogy of a Segment of the Grinyer Family that had its English Roots in the County of Sussex, England, by Charles Edward Grinyer, published 1988 (published by the author)

Grinyer family history with chapters on Stanmer, Patcham and Brighton

Religious Survey 1851 - Steyning district, edited by John A. Vickers, published August 1990 in The Religious Census of Sussex 1851 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 75, pp.107-117, 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

Steyning district incl. Shoreham, Hove, Preston, Patcham, West Blatchington, Hangleton, Portslade, Southwick, Kingston-by-Sea, Sompting, Coombs, Buttolphs, Upper Beeding, Edburton, Poynings, Woodmancote, Henfield, Ashurst & Shermanbury

Patcham and Blatchington (West) - Land Tax 1785, edited by Roger Davey, published 1991 in East Sussex Land Tax, 1785 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 77, p.166, 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

A Long-lived Family, by Albert Gearing, published June 1992 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 10 no. 2, article, pp.68-70) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14877] & The Keep [LIB/501262] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The Gearing family of Patcham and Greenwich

Glimpses of Old Patcham, by Ernest Ryman and Geoffrey Mead, published 1 March 1993 (32 pp., Brighton: Dyke Publications, ISBN-10: 0950975656 & ISBN-13: 9780950975658) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503006] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

East Sussex Census 1851 Index: Brighton, Hove, Preston, Patcham, West Blatchington, Hangelton, Portslade, Aldrington, Southwick, Kingston-by-Sea & Shoreham, by June C. Barnes, published June 1994 (vol. 24, booklet, C. J. Barnes & printed at Battle Instant Print Ltd.)

Sussex Downland Portraits - Life in Patcham, Preston, Hangleton and West Blatchington as seen through probate and other records 1650-1750, by Graham Kean and Tony Ketteman, published 1995 (218 pp., published by the authors) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500000] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Patcham Youth Brass Band, by D. R. Stockley, published 1996 (published by the author) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502982]

From Sussex Yeoman to Greenwich Waterman, by Albert W. Gearing, published 2001 (176 pp., Country Books, ISBN-10: 1898941556 & ISBN-13: 9781898941552) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14476] & The Keep [LIB/504028] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Albert Gearing's fascinating history of his family through the male lineage from 1500 to the present day makes the reader feel a surrogate family member - and glad to be one.
There are extracts from jurors' notes of the 16th century that provide a vivid insight into life in the Tudor age. In the late 18th century, the family leave Sussex to become Thames Watermen - and as the seven year apprenticeship was unpaid, forced to live in Greenwich workhouse - life in which Albert Gearing gives much detail and contemporary illustrations.
In his descriptions of his father, a survivor of the Gallipoli Campaign who died in 1997 at the age of 102 years, we have a deeply moving tribute to one of the more fortunate participants in the First World War. The author's account of his own early life throws fresh light on a vibrant community that will interest not only those who know and care about Greenwich, but students of social history everywhere.
"In spite of all the air raids and shortages of everything, it was amazing how cheerful people were, especially Londoners who could always crack a joke about things. I never heard anyone say that we should give in. There is no doubt that Churchill kept our spirits up with his famous speeches, which we looked forward to listening to. There was absolutely no doubt in his mind that we should win through. I think that was what kept us going."

1841 Census vol.24 - Hove area, published 2006 by PBN Publications (Ref: BPCZ, CD-ROM, ISBN-10: 1905347375)

Patcham, All Saints - Church monuments, edited by Nigel Llewellyn, published 2011 in East Sussex Church Monuments, 1530-1830 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 93, pp.249-251, 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

Milling connections: the Harris family of Patcham, by Carolyn Wheeler, published March 2011 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 5, article, pp.226-229) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508846] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

I grew up in the village of Patcham in the 1940s and my father, Roy HARRIS, with his brother, Frank, ran HARRIS's bakery, grocers and post office. I was proud that the beautiful windmill, depicted on my school badge and a picturesque sight on the hill above the village, had been built by my great-grandfather, Joseph HARRIS. But knowledge of Joseph's background was sketchy: we believed that he had come from Lewes to Patcham, become apprenticed to a miller, learnt his trade and subsequently established a successful business, and that he had eventually died of pneumonia in 1903 after foolishly struggling up the hill to tend to the mill in a terrible storm.

Scattered squalor' and 'downland homes' : interwar housing at Patcham, Brighton, by Geoffrey Mead, 2012 at Sussex University (Ph.D. thesis)   View Online

The Brighton suburb of Patcham is an area which was transforming rapidly into a suburban housing district in the interwar period. An urban fringe area, where the distinction between the various housing areas is largely explained by the differential ownership and sale of the former agricultural land, and the subsequent development as suburban housing under different developers. The factors bringing about the urban expansion, particularly in relation to Brighton and its growing economy are discussed, as is the declining agricultural economy. A variety of suburban housing types emerged, ranging from army huts and architect-designed detached villas in the early post-World War One period, to large corporate housing developments during the 1930s. This period was one where largely uncontrolled building was taking place outside Brighton municipal control, a situation partly resolved by the extension of borough boundaries in the late 1920s, and the social and legislative factors pertinent to urban housing issues and suburban growth are discussed. This pattern of areal difference is readily discernible in the 21st century where the palimpsest of earlier patterns still influences the later building. The economic situation and the various architectural styles of the interwar are reviewed, as is the postwar development of the district which is described to give the post-World War Two context. Suburbs are more complex than is apparent at first consideration and this study aims to unpick the fabric of suburbia through the case study of a selected area of Patcham setting it all in the wider context of local and national issues. The patterns of building that are recorded for Patcham can be seen to operate across Britain in the same period and serve as an exemplar of wider processes.

North Brighton Through Time: Preston, Withdean & Patcham, by Anthony Beeson, published 19 September 2013 (96 pp., Stroud: Amberley Publishing, ISBN-10: 1445615401 & ISBN-13: 9781445615400) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Preston, once a village with an independent life, is now Brighton', wrote Edward Verrall Lucas of the main subject of this volume in 1904. The same thing might also be said of Patcham and its hamlet of Withdean, which are the other protagonists within these covers. Preston and Withdean were noted for their trees in the 'barren waste' of Brighton. Their modern development followed the 1854 removal of the Preston turnpike. This volume is arranged geographically as a series of five textual peregrinations through Preston, Withdean, Surrenden and Patcham. One starts from the Preston viaduct while others commence from Preston Park Avenue, Preston Circus, Preston Drove and Preston Park's Rose Garden. The many previously unpublished illustrations come from the author's collection.

'Scattered squalor quickly defied any concerted plan': Sweet Hill, Patcham 1921-1925, by Geoffrey Mead, published 2014 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 152, article) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18617] & The Keep [LIB/508097] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The early 1920s were a critical time in UK housing provision. Although there were some planned local authority housing schemes, such as Moulsecoomb, Brighton, there were many unplanned landscapes of informal settlement appearing on urban fringes and in rural locations across the country. Sweet Hill, Patcham, was one such. This article explores some of the previously hidden history of this settlement, which would have been mirrored across many of the marginal landscapes of Britain.

Adur Valley and Brighton & Hove - Monumental Inscriptions, published (no date) by Sussex Family History Group (Ref: C008, CD-ROM)

Aldrington, Botolphs, Brighton (9), Coombes, Edburton, Kingston Buci, Lancing, Hangleton (2), Hove (2), Newtimber, Patcham, Poynings, Pycombe, Old Shoreham, Southwick (5), Steyning (4),West Blatchington, and Wiston,