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Parish of Rusper, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. II, rape of Bramber, pp.273-274) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2397][Lib 3212] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500088] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The History and Antiquities of Horsham, by Howard Dudley, published 1836 (reprinted in 2002 by Country Books, 112 pp., ISBN-10: 1898941726 & ISBN-13: 9781898941729) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4251] & British Library & West Sussex Libraries   View Online

The reprint is a facsimile of one of the rarest topographical books on Sussex, first published in 1836 by a sixteen-year-old schoolboy. Illustrated with lithographs and wood engravings, the book covers the market town of Horsham and the surrounding villages of Rusper, Warnham, Roffy, Nuthurst, Itchingfield, Slinfold and Rudgwick. The contents include: the parish church, the county gaol, the Independent's chapel, the Wesleyan chapel, Collier's School, the National School, the Royal British Schools, the great houses and estates, the dragon in St Leonard's Forest, a list of Horsham inns, details of coaches, plants found in the area, fossils, population, roads, Horsham fairs, etc

Notices of the Benedictine Priory of St Mary Magdalen, at Rusper, by Albert Way, published 1852 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 5, article, pp.244-261) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2090] & The Keep [LIB/500224] & S.A.S. library   View Online

On an Enamelled Chalice and other Reliques found at Rusper Priory, 1840, by Albert Way, M.A., F.S.A., published 1857 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 9, article, pp.303-311) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2094] & The Keep [LIB/500228] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Rusper, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. II, pp.132-133, Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3315] & The Keep [LIB/500158]   View Online

Rusper Monumental Inscriptions, by Ernest Ellman, published 1873 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 25, article, pp.220-224) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2110] & The Keep [LIB/500243] & S.A.S. library   View Online

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

Houses of Benedictine nuns: Priory of Rusper, by William Page, F.S.A., published 1907 in The Victoria History of the County of Sussex (vol. 2: Ecclesiastical, Maritime, Social and Economic History, Population 1801-1901, Industries, Agriculture, Forestry, Architecture, Schools and Sport, pp.63-64, London: Victoria County History, ISBN-10: 0712905863 & ISBN-13: 9780712905862) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2399][Lib 9097] & The Keep [LIB/500090][LIB/504899] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Guide to the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Rusper, by Francis W. Steer, published 1971 (Rusper Parochial Church Council) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

The Parish of Rusper, published 1975 (pamphlet, Horsham District Council) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10324]

Parish of Rusper, by A. P. Baggs, C. R. J. Currie, C. R. Elrington, S. M. Keeling, A. M. Rowland and edited by T. P. Huson, published 1 January 1987 in A History of the County of Sussex (vol. 6, part 3: North-eastern part of the Rape of Bramber including Crawley New Town, pp.109-119, London: Victoria County History, ISBN-10: 0197227686 & ISBN-13: 9780197227688) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9945][Lib 9946] & The Keep [LIB/500077] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

The Will and Inventory of a Sussex Farmer, by Peter Evershed, published September 1987 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 6, article, pp.253-255) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Thomas Evershed (baptized 22 May 1562 at Ockley, Surrey) married Elizabeth Gardiner of Rusper on 6 June 1588.  They had five children at Rusper.  Information from his will and his inventory are included.

A Good Innings, by Rose Chitty, published December 1987 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 7, article, pp.286-287) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The story of cricketer Dick Humphrey who settled in Rusper

Across the Border - The Kempsell Family, by A. J. Frost, published March 1989 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 5, article, pp.209-210) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

This is a narrative history of the Kempsell family of Kingswood, Surrey and their descendants and covers the years 1525 - 1869 in the parishes of Rusper, Croydon and Charlwood in Surrey

Religious Survey 1851 - Horsham district, edited by John A. Vickers, published August 1990 in The Religious Census of Sussex 1851 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 75, pp.118-124, 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

Horsham district incl. West Grinstead, Shipley, Nuthurst, Itchingfield, Slinfold, Lower Beeding, Ifield, Rusper & Warnham

The Men Who Marched Away: a remembrance of the men whose names are recorded on the Rusper War Memorial, by Paul Reed, published 1991 (Averys Press)

Rusper - 18c. Schools, edited by John Caffyn, published 1998 in Sussex Schools in the 18th Century (Sussex Record Society, vol. 81, p.227, 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

Rusper in the Past: as seen in old postcards, by Margaret White and Derek White, published 1999 (pamphlet, published by the authors) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14319] & West Sussex Libraries

Early Houses of Rusper 1400-1840, by Jean Shelley, published 2003 (published by the author) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

James Weller of Rusper, Horsham and Worth, by Michael R. Weller, published March 2004 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 16 no. 1, article, pp.3-9) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508834] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

James Weller (1772-1853) married Jane Burstow in 1795 and then Ann Chatfield in 1808. This article records the family history back to William Weller of Horsham who married Sarah Chase in 1639

Rusper roots, by Nick Flint, published December 2005 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 16 no. 8, article, pp.396-397) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508841] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Early census returns, by Michael Saxby, published December 2006 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 17 no. 4, article, p.179) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508988] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Rusper 1821 records held at W.S.R.O.

Rusper Priory: A Medieval Sussex Benedictine Nunnery, by Michael J. Burchall, published December 2013 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 20 no. 8, article, pp.366-370) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508979] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Very little is known about the small nunnery that was founded by the family of De BRAOSE in the parish of Rusper on the Sussex/Surrey border in the mid-twelfth century and dedicated, like the parish church, to St Mary Magdalene. In 1852 Albert Way contributed an article to Sussex Archaeological Collection and in 1907 Louis Salzmann added some further information. Other authors have made similar, but smaller, comments. The family of De BRAOSE, who had held the Rape of Bramber from about 1070, were small benefactors to the Cluniac Priory of Lewes, the Benedictine Abbey at Battle and the Premonstratensian Abbey of Dureford, all great foundations, and founded the Benedictine Priory of Sele in Beeding parish following a disastrous attempt to found a priory at the gate of their castle at Bramber about 1070.

Know Sussex villages : unbelievably true tales of endeavour, love, hate, deception and scandal : West Tarring, Upper Dicker, Buxted, Rusper, Maresfield, Baldslow / Roy Lewis, by Roy Lewis, published 9 April 2015 (150 pp., Country Books, ISBN-10: 1910489093 & ISBN-13: 9781910489093) accessible at: British Library

Church of St Mary Magdalen, Rusper, published (no date) (St Mary Magdalen) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4926]

Rusper Parish Register, published (no date) by the Sussex Family History Group and Parish Register Transcription Society (Ref: SXW100, CD-ROM)

Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1560-1900, Banns 1859-1900. Indexed Transcription. 40 photographs inside and outside the church. Vol.100.