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The Serpent of St. Leonard's Forest, by J. O. Halliwell, published 1867 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 19, notes & queries, pp.190-191) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2104] & The Keep [LIB/500238] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The St. Leonards-Forest Dragon, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1873 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 25, notes & queries, p.226) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2110] & The Keep [LIB/500243] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Discovery of Flint Implements near Horsham, in St Leonard's Forest, by Thomas Honywood, published 1877 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 27, article, pp.177-183) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2112] & The Keep [LIB/500245] & S.A.S. library   View Online

St. Leonard's Forest, by E. V. Lucas with illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs, published 1904 in Highways and Byways in Sussex (Chapter XIII, London: Macmillan & Co.) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 41][Lib 12792][Lib 15825] & The Keep [LIB/500142]   View Online

Horsham and St. Leonard's Forest with their surroundings - With a chapter on Christ's Hospital by R. H. Hamilton, by W. Goodliffe, published 1905 (108 pp., London: Homeland Association) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries

The Hammer Ponds of Sussex, by Kate L. Trelawny, published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 7, article, pp.296-298) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]

A Neolithic Celt from St. Leonard's Forest, by S. E. Winbolt, published 1932 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 73, notes & queries, p.201) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2158] & The Keep [LIB/500356] & S.A.S. library

The classification of a microlithic culture: the Tardenoisian of Horsham, by J. G. D. Clark, published 1933 in The Archaeological Journal (vol. 90, article, pp.52-77)   View Online

Microliths have been collected in St Leonard?s Forest from the 1870s onwards

Chapel of Our Lady, Shelley Plain, St. Leonard's Forest, by G. N. Slyfield, published May 1955 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 5 & 6, note, p.101) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

St. Leonards Lower Forge and Furnace Site Survey 1988, by R. G. Houghton and J. S. Hodgkinson, published 1989 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 9, article, pp.12-17, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506560]   Download PDF

The WIRG Field Group made a number of visits to this site. Based on their discussions during and after their visits, this account supplements and re-examines the information given in the gazetteer of The Iron Industry of the Weald. The site is a complex one and any interpretation must be tentative for the dual use cannot be explained as readily as at Langles.

Ecological destruction in the 16th century: the case of St Leonard's Forest, by Sybil Jack, published 1997 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 135, article, pp.241-248) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13642] & The Keep [LIB/500290] & S.A.S. library

A lost parish, by Michael Burchall, published December 2010 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 19 no. 4, article, pp.190-195) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508845] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

From early in the 13th century until the first quarter of the 16th century there existed on the eastern edge of St Leonard's forest to the northeast of Horsham and a couple of miles southwest of Crawley, a parish with a church that has almost been forgotten. The former parish of Shelley extended in a narrow strip north-south and was probably that area which later became known as Crawley detached and which today is part of Crawley parish. It covered Shelley Plain, a narrow piece of land sloping down to a valley on each side - deriving its name from scylf and leah and which gave its name to both the area and a family surnamed Shelley - and extended as far north to what later became an estate called Buchan Hill near Ifield and which today is Cottesmore golf course. Its eastern boundary would seem to have been to the west of the old Brighton Road (A23) bordering an extended tongue of land belonging to Slaugham parish and what must have been the western part of the parish has now been absorbed in Lower Beeding along with the reputed manor and Shelley park. There is evidence that like Ifield and Crawley it lay within the Archdeaconry of Lewes in the 13th century but Shelley's later association and possession by the POYNINGS family of Slaugham has led to much confusion as to exactly under which jurisdiction it lay in medieval times. In 1824 Cartwright's map indicates that the eastern part of the old Shelley parish had been absorbed by Slaugham.

St Leonard's Forest minepits, by Vivienne Blandford, published 2013 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 33, article, pp.23-26, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507841]   Download PDF

An archaeological survey of St Leonard's Forest was undertaken during 2010/2011 for Forest Enterprise to review its historic environment resource and provide conservation and management recommendations to Forest Enterprise for the heritage of this area of woodland.

Personnel at St Leonard's Forest ironworks 1587-8, published 2014 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 34, article, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/509143]   Download PDF

The St Leonard's Forest, Horsham, footpath dispute: pulic access versus private land 1899-1900, by Maggie Weir-Wilson, published 2016 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 154, article, pp.257-272) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18939] & The Keep [LIB/509465] & S.A.S. library