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Tom Sayers: Champion of England, by Dennis Brooks, published December 1983 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 3, article, pp.103-106) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9173] & The Keep [LIB/501191] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

A great fight near Chichester, by Kim Leslie, published January 1984 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 27, article, p.23) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/27] & The Keep [LIB/500480]

Prizefights at Crawley Down, by Jeremy Hodgkinson, published May 1988 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 40, article, p.13) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/40] & The Keep [LIB/500482]

The Last Great Prize Fight between Tom King and John Heenan in Wadhurst on 10th December 1863, by Michael Insley, published 2007 (48 pp., Wadhurst History Society, ISBN-10: 0954580230 & ISBN-13: 9780954580230) accessible at: Wadhurst History Society
Abstract:
Covers the fight between Tom King and the American John Heenan which took place in a field at Turners Green, Wadhurst on 10th December 1863 and the history leading up to the fight.