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The History of Tunbridge Wells, by Thomas Benge Burr, published 1766 (317 pp., Tunbridge Wells: E. Baker) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries   View Online

The Tunbridge Wells Guide or An Account of the ancient and present state of that place to which is added a particular description of the Towns and Villages, Gentlemens Seats, Remains of Antiquity, Founderies, &c.&c. within the circumference of Sixteen Miles, by J. Sprange, published 1797 (Tunbridge Wells: J. Sprange) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Parish of Withyham, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. I, rape of Pevensey, pp.393-396) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2396][Lib 3211] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500087] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Historical notices of the parish of Withyham … with a description of the Church and Sackville Chapel. Illustrated with drawings and wood engravings, by R.W. SW [Reginald Windsor Sackville-West}, published 1857 (100 pp., London: Chiswick Press) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Forest Chapels: Gilderedge, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1868 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 20, notes & queries, p.231) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2105] & The Keep [LIB/507132] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Withyham (or Withiam), by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. II, pp.264-266, Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3315] & The Keep [LIB/500158]   View Online

Withyham Monumental Slab, by F. Arnold, published 1871 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 23, notes & queries, pp.320-321) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2108] & The Keep [LIB/500241] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Ordnance Survey Book of Reference to the plan of the Parish of Withyham, published 1875 (article, London: H.M.S.O. & printed at George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)   View Online

Richard Jefferies' Last Essays: Field and Hedgerow, by Richard Jefferies, published 1889 (viii + 331 pp., London: Longmans) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12461] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Withyham, by J. H. Round, published 1900 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 43, notes & queries, pp.278-279) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2128] & The Keep [LIB/500261] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Historical Notes of Withyham, Hartfield and Ashdown Forest together with the History of the Sackville Family, by Charles Nassau Sutton, published 1902 (x + 388 pp., Tunbridge Wells: Baldwin) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503092] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Alien houses: Priory of Withyham, 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.123-124, 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

Notes on the Bells of Withyham Church, by W. W. Starmer, published 1908 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 51, notes & queries, pp.186-189) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2136] & The Keep [LIB/500269] & S.A.S. library   View Online

English Homes and Villages, Kent & Sussex also published as Tunbridge Wells and its Neighbourhood, by Lady Elizabeth R. Hope, published 1909 (296 pp., Sevenoaks: J. Salmon) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Old Buckhurst, by W. D. Scull, published 1911 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 54, article, pp.62-76) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2139] & The Keep [LIB/500272] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Catalogue of Italian Pictures at 16, South Street, Park Lane, London and Buckhurst in Sussex, by Robert Benson, published 1914 (xxvi + 229 pp., London: Chiswick Press) accessible at: British Library

Old Buckhurst (1), the residence of Mr. Arthur Colefax, by Country Life contributor(s), published 18 October 1919 in Country Life (article)

Old Buckhurst (2), the residence of Mr. Arthur Colefax, by Country Life contributor(s), published 25 October 1919 in Country Life (article)

History of the Sackville Family: volume 1, by Charles J. Phillips, published c.1925 (xiv + 493 pp., Cassell & Co. Ltd.) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507376]

History of the Sackville Family: volume 2, by Charles J. Phillips, published c.1925 (xi + 484 pp., Cassell & Co. Ltd.) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507377]

Historic Houses of Sussex - Duckings, Withyham, by Viscountess Wolseley, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 3, article, pp.179-183) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500172]

Elizabethan Plan of Buckhurst Park , by Ernest Straker, published November 1932 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IV no. 4, article, pp.60-61) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2203][Lib 8222][Lib 8861] & The Keep [LIB/500206] & S.A.S. library

The Buckhurst Terrier, 1597-1598, by Ernest Straker, published 1933 (vol. 39, Sussex Record Society) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2255][Lib 8038] & The Keep [LIB/500411] & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

The Buckhurst Terrier, though known to and quoted by the Rev. R. W. Sackville-West (afterwards Lord Buckhurst) in his "Historical Notices of Withyham" (London, 1857), and also to the Rev. C. N. Sutton, who used it in his "Historical Notes of Withyham, Hartfield and Ashdown Forest" (Tunbridge Wells, 1902), had been missing for nearly a generation.
The former Stoneland Lodge, now called Buckhurst House, built in 1743, has undergone many changes. The recess of a disused door in the library had been fitted with shelves, but during the tenancy of the late Mr. Robert Benson, about 1905, a wall-covering was carried over this recess, and by some carelessness the Terrier and other books were covered up by it. At the end of the tenancy, in March, 1931, this covering was removed and the Terrier recovered.
Earl De La Warr, whose property it is, has very kindly given permission to the publication of an epitome by the Sussex Record Society.
The Terrier gives a remarkably complete survey of a large area in North-East Sussex, comprising the greater part of the parishes of Hartfield and Withyham, together with much land in East Grinstead and other parishes bordering on Ashdown Forest, as it was in the closing years of the reign of Elizabeth. The date of compilation, as stated on the title page, is the 39th and 40th years of that reign, i.e. between 17th November, 1596, and 16th November, 1598, but the date of the last lease entered is 8th June, 1599.

Another interesting volume has been published by the Sussex Record Society. It consists of the Buckhurst Terrier, the property of Earl De La Warr, who has kindly given permission for this publication to be made.
The Terrier is a full manorial account of some 17 manors in the Rape of Pevensey and mostly in the immediate neighbourhood of Ashdown Forest. The survey was made by Thomas Marshall for Sir Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst (1536-1608), a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth and one of the most prominent men of his time. He was created Earl of Dorset in 1604.
The Terrier is in excellent preservation, notwithstanding that it was lost for a considerable time behind some panelling in Buckhurst House. It is invaluable to those who are studying the history of the neighbourhood, besides being a first-rate example of its own class. A special feature of interest is the series of 40 maps covering the areas of the manors.
The whole Terrier has been epitomised by Mr. Ernest Straker, F.S.A., and most carefully edited by him. He gives an excellent Introduction dealing with the family of Sackville, the previous history of the manors recorded and a full account of the Terrier itself. He has taken endless pains in producing an accurate condensation of a very valuable source of the history of the large part of Sussex covered by the Manors.
Both he and the Society are to be congratulated on the volume.

A Buckhurst Diary, by Henry Cheal, published 1938 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. XII no. 6, article, pp.392-395; no. 7, pp.448-450) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2317] & The Keep [LIB/500183]

Some Sussex Monuments. III - Cibber's Sackville Monument at Withyham, by Mrs Esdaile, published August 1941 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VIII no. 7, article, pp.185-187) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8865][Lib 2207] & The Keep [LIB/500210] & S.A.S. library

Withyham Manor and Sir Robert Rede, by Miss C. P. Murrell, published November 1950 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII no. 4, article, pp.73-77) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & S.A.S. library

Penn's Rocks, Withyham, Sussex, by Christopher Hussey, published 23 March 1961 in Country Life (article, pp.644-647)

A Moated Site at Blackham Court, Withyham, by C. F. Tebbutt, published November 1969 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVII no. 4, note, p.133) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8235] & The Keep [LIB/500219] & S.A.S. library

Withyham, Sussex, edited by I. R. S. Cosby, published 1972 (56 pp., published by the author) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Mystery of Withyham or Stonelands Furnace, by C. F. Tebbutt, published 1975 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 8, article, p.45) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558]   Download PDF

A great deal of intensive fieldwork by the writer, following on visits by the Buxted Branch of W.I.R.G., have failed to find any trace of Withyham Furnace. Straker could only surmise that the now existing large lake in Buckhurst Park (TQ 497 348) had covered all relics of the furnace and forge, and refers to a lease of 1676 when he thought that the site had been converted to a corn mill (see Wealden Iron p.253). Lower refers to the Bakers of Stoneland Park (afterwards incorporated into Buckhurst Park) having ironworks powered "by a chain of ponds still existing below the house" (see Sussex Arch. Coll. Vol.2 (1849) p.220).

Further Light on Withyham or Stonelands Furnace, 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

Withyham Marriages, published September 1977 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 3 no. 2, article, pp.50-53) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7967] & The Keep [LIB/501255] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Water-driven estate-water pumping plant at Buckhurst Park, by Haywards Heath District Scouts Camp, 1976, published 1978 in Sussex Industrial History (No. 8, article, pp.10-12) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16389/8] & The Keep [LIB/506525]   Download PDF

During August 1976 permission was kindly given by Earl De La Warr, for Scouts of the Haywards Heath District, to survey a water-driven pumping plant at Buckhurst Park, Withyham, where a camp had been established. This report describes the machinery, its housing and the water supply. The survey was carried out under the guidance of the Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society.

Withyham Marriages, and Others, by M. J. Leppard, published June 1983 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 6, article, p.194) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9174] & The Keep [LIB/501257] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Planned Medieval Land Division in Withyham, East Sussex, by Mark Gardiner, published 1985 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 123, article, pp.109-114) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9514] & The Keep [LIB/500310] & S.A.S. library

Excavations in Rocks Wood, Withyham, 1982, by A. F. Harding and J. Ostoja-Zagorski, published 1987 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 125, article, pp.11-32) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9994] & The Keep [LIB/500304] & S.A.S. library

A Rascal Unknown, by Brian Tasker, published December 1987 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 7, article, p.271) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The author traces his research for Philip Tasker Knight, thought to be the son of Sarah Knight and William Tasker, born 1766 in Withyham. Article covers the years 1675 - 1766 in the parishes of Rotherfield and Withyham

The Tasker Family and Summersales Farm, by Brian Tasker, published December 1988 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 4, article, pp.164-165) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The Tasker family at Summersales Farm from 1714

East Sussex Census 1851 Index: Withyham, Hartfield & Lingfield (Surrey), by June C. Barnes, published 1990 (vol. 17, booklet, C. J. Barnes & printed at Battle Instant Print Ltd., ISBN-10: 1870264169) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503434] & East Sussex Libraries

Religious Survey 1851 - East Grinstead district, edited by John A. Vickers, published August 1990 in The Religious Census of Sussex 1851 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 75, pp.59-65, 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

East Grinstead district incl. Withyham, Hartfield, Forest Row, Worth, Crawley & West Hoathly

Withyham - Land Tax 1785, edited by Roger Davey, published 1991 in East Sussex Land Tax, 1785 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 77, pp.222-224, 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

Pen Pictures of Our Ancestors, by L. D. Avis, published June 1991 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 9 no. 6, article, pp.231-232) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11999] & The Keep [LIB/501261] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Avis inhabitants of Withyham in 1836

Withyham Sussex Parish Records: Relief to the Poor in Service, Winter 1837, by L. D. Avis, published December 1991 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 9 no. 8, article, p.291) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11999] & The Keep [LIB/501261] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The 4th Earl of Dorset and the Politics of the Sixteen-Twenties, by David L. Smith, published February 1992 in Institute of Historical Research (vol. 65, issue 156, article, pp.37-53)   View Online

The Sackville Chapel, Withyham, Sussex, by Countess De La War and Robert Innes-Smith, published May 1993 (12 pp., Heritage House Group Ltd., ISBN-10: 0851013007 & ISBN-13: 9780851013008) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Two peculiar Peculiars, by Frank Leeson, published September 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 3, article, pp.91-92) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508810] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Wivelsfield Hamlet 1667-1798 and Withyham Hamlet 1606-1908

Withyham - 18c. Schools, edited by John Caffyn, published 1998 in Sussex Schools in the 18th Century (Sussex Record Society, vol. 81, p.270, 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

Field Notes: Three bloomeries at Blackham, Withyham, East Sussex, compiled by J. S. Hodgkinson, published 2000 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 20, report, pp.2-11, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506567]   Download PDF

Eve of wedding tragedy, by Mike Cruttenden, published 2002 in Brighton Circular (vol. 28, article, pp.56-58)

Death at Withyham station level crossing, 1901.

A poet in politics: Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst and first earl of Dorset (1536-1608), by Rivkah Zim, published May 2006 in Institute of Historical Research (vol. 79, issue 204, article, pp.199-223)   View Online

Three elements in the experience of Thomas Sackville - eloquence, money and the law - integrate the achievements of the young poet and the mentality of the mature councillor, and enhance our understanding of him. His poetry had topical, political significance and taught him how to argue persuasively. His wealth gave him the confidence to be outspoken. His legal training, and the emphasis on equity and conscience, which began to affect Tudor jurisprudence (through such works as St. German's), account for many of the assumptions he articulated in public life. Two appended letters provide extended illustrations of these arguments.

Religion and the Politic Counsellor: Thomas Sackville, 1536-1608, by Rivkah Zim, published September 2007 in The English Historical Review (vol. cxxii, issue 498, article, pp.892-917, ISSN: 0013-8266)   View Online

There have been few attempts at new interpretations of religious and political identities among the political elite of Elizabethan England. This article investigates the actions and background of Thomas Sackville, lord Buckhurst, whose politic pragmatism and reticence in commenting personally on religion, in writing, have contributed to conflicting views on his position. It demonstrates that while Sackville upheld and promoted the religion of the established church, he nevertheless repeatedly differentiated between the political needs of the state for conformity, and the personal needs of individuals for freedom of conscience where there was not otherwise a threat to social order. It argues that Sackville's stance is significant because he had opportunities to engage in a wide variety of political spheres at the highest levels and often with scope to use his own judgment in determining when and how to intervene. Reference is made to his family background; activities in Sussex, including ecclesiastical patronage; disagreement with the earl of Leicester over English policy in the Netherlands (1587); his work as a privy councillor and high commissioner from 1586; and as chancellor of Oxford University from 1592. Reasons for his mentality are examined in assessing his generation's humanist ethical values, transmitted in English poetry as well as the premises of a classical education. It concludes that Sackville's construction of his religious identity as a moderate, in the preamble to his will, should not be construed as a lack of idealism in a man of his generation and experience

Withyham, St. Michael and All Angels - Church monuments, edited by Nigel Llewellyn, published 2011 in East Sussex Church Monuments, 1530-1830 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 93, pp.410-413, 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

Catalogue of Italian Pictures at 16, South Street, Park Lane, London and Buckhurst in Sussex, by Robert Benson, published 10 December 2013 (reproduction of 1914 edition, 262 pp., Nabu Press)

Parish church treasures. 'Dear little Tom' [Sackville Chapel, St Michael & All Angels, Withyham], by John Goodall, published 23 July 2014 in Country Life (vol. 208 no. 30, article, p.40)

A multi-period ironworking site in Withyham, East Sussex, published 2016 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 36 (Part I), report, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/509249]

1841 Census vol.19 - Hartfield and Withyham, published (no date) by PBN Publications (Ref: BPCU, CD-ROM)