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Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of Sussex, by George Alexander Cooke, published c.1807 (179 pp., London: C. Cooke) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3267] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

A Topographical and Historical Description of The County of Sussex, by Frederick Shoberl, published c.1813 (208 pp., London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

A Concise Historical & Topographical Sketch Of Hastings, Winchelsea, & Rye, Including Several Other Places In The Vicinity Of Those Ancient Towns, by Frederick W. L. Stockdale, published 1817 (48 pp. + 29 plates, Hastings: M. P. Powell) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503835] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Brighton Ambulator containing historical and topographical delineations of the town, by Charles Wright, published 1818 (London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries   View Online

The History and Topography of Sussex: with Biographical Sketches and a Map of the County, by William Pinnock, published 1820 (68 pp., London: G. Whittaker) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Topographical sketches of Brighthelmston and its neighbourhood. Illustrated with twelve engravings by R. Havell, Jun., by E. W. Brayley, F.S.A., published 1825 (82 pp., London: Rodwell and Martin) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

The Bognor, Arundel and Littlehampton Guide, comprising a history of those places, and of the castle of Arundel, with topographical notices of the villages, with a full description of Goodwood House and of the remains at Bignor, by Richard Dally, published 1828 (Chichester: William Mason) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries   View Online

Sussex: Being an Historical, Topographical, and General Description of every Rape, Hundred, River, Town, Borough, Parish, Village, Hamlet, Castle, Monastery, and Gentleman's Seat in that County, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1831 (268 pp., Lewes: R. W. Lower) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Excursions in the County of Sussex: Comprehending Historical and Topographical Delineations of the Principal Towns and Villages, together with descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and the Most Modern Improvements; Forming a Complete Guide to Brighton, Hastings, Worthing, &c. &c. , edited by Edmund Bellchambers, published 1835 (72 pp., London: Alan Bell & Co.) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 (volume 1, Lewes: J. Baxter) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2396][Lib 3211] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500087] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 (volume 2, Lewes: J. Baxter) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2397][Lib 3212] & The Keep [LIB/507381][Lib/500088] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Topographica Sussexiana: an attempt towards forming a list of the various publications relating to the county of Sussex, by George Slade Butler, F.S.A., published 1863 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 15, article, pp.215-230) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2100] & The Keep [LIB/500234] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Topographica Sussexiana, continued, by G. Slade Butler, F.S.A., published 1864 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 16, article, pp.273-290) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2101] & The Keep [LIB/500235] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Sussexiana Topographica, continued, by G. Slade Butler, F.S.A., published 1865 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 17, article, pp.169-184) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2102] & The Keep [LIB/500236] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Sussexiana Topographica, concluded, by G. S. Butler, F.S.A., published 1866 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 18, article, pp.87-110) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2103] & The Keep [LIB/500237] & S.A.S. library   View Online

A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal. Vol I, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 (Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3314] & The Keep [LIB/500159] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

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

Observations upon the Topography and Climate of Crowborough Hill, Sussex, by Charles Leeson Prince, published 1885 (312 pp., Lewes: Farncombe & Co.) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503802] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

On the sculptures of the Chalk Downs in Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, by George Clinch, published January 1909 in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (vol. 65, issue 1-4, article, pp.208-209)   View Online

The Author classifies the various forms of sculpture of the Chalk Downs under three heads, namely, (1) dry valleys of simple form, (2) dry valleys of complex form, and (3) wet valleys. He draws attention to the relatively small catchment-areas of the dry valleys, and to the large number of tributary valleys found in some districts, two points which he considers have not hitherto received entirely satisfactory explanation.

The sculpturings of the Chalk Downs of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex., by George Clinch, published February 1910 in Geological Magazine (vol. 7, no. 2, article, pp.49-58)   View Online

The aim of this paper is to offer an explanation of the phenomena intimately related to the sculpturings of the Chalk Downs in the district under review, namely:-

1. The Dry Chalk Valleys.
2. The River System of the Wealden area, as far as it relates to the Chalk Downs.
3. Incidentally, the Denudation of the Wealden area.

The Topography of Stane Street, by Captain W. A. Grant, published 1922 (London: John Long Ltd.) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

The Parliamentary Surveys of Ashdown Forest - Topographical Details, by Ivan D. Margary, F.S.A., published 1940 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 81, article, pp.137-140) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2166] & The Keep [LIB/500348] & S.A.S. library

The Topography of East Grinstead Borough, by P. D. Wood, published 1968 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 106, article, pp.49-62) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2191] & The Keep [LIB/500323] & S.A.S. library

Regional and local components in the physiography of the Sussex Weald, by J.B. Thorne and D.K.C. Jones, published 1969 in Area (vol. 1, no. 2, article, pp.13-21)

The Place Names and early Topography of Burgess Hill, by Heather M. Warne, published 1985 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 123, article, pp.127-144) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9514] & The Keep [LIB/500310] & S.A.S. library

Burgage Tenure and Topography in Lewes. East Sussex, by John Houghton, published 1986 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 124, article, pp.119-128) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9762] & The Keep [LIB/500311] & S.A.S. library

John Norden c.1547-1625: estate surveyor, topographer, county mapmaker and devotional write, by Frank Kitchen, published 1997 in Image Mundi (vol. 49, article, pp.43-61)

Natural Regions, by Rendel Williams, published 1 January 1999 in An Historical Atlas of Sussex (pp.6-7, Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, ISBN-10: 1860771122 & ISBN-13: 9781860771125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14026][Lib 18777] & The Keep [LIB/501686][LIB/508903] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Forest, Common Land and Enclosure 1700-1900, by Heather Warne, published 1 January 1999 in An Historical Atlas of Sussex (pp.86-87, Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, ISBN-10: 1860771122 & ISBN-13: 9781860771125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14026][Lib 18777] & The Keep [LIB/501686][LIB/508903] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The West Sussex Topographic Toponym and its Landscape Significance, by Anthony Brook, published Spring 2000 in West Sussex History, the Journal of West Sussex Archives Society (no. 65, article, p.22) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16404/65] & The Keep [LIB/500489]

Remembering 'Round-the-Down': topographical perspectives on early settlement and land-use at Southerham, near Lewes, by Gail Vines and Francis Price, published 2005 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 143, article, pp.117-134) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15610] & The Keep [LIB/500361] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Archaeological and documentary evidence, taken together, suggests the enduring significance of a subtle downland feature on the steep southern slope of the Malling-Caburn Downs. Named 'Round-the-Down' on the 1873 Ordnance Survey map, this small rounded hill is one of the few local landforms still noted by today's cartographers. The site of an Early-Bronze-Age barrow constructed alongside prehistoric fields, it retained a distinct identity well beyond prehistoric times. Within the settlement of Southerham, throughout the rise and fall of a peasant community, it became the focal point of a common field and a network of trackways, traces of which remain today. Thus the barrow and its hill may have helped to define a landscape that remained in cultivation over four millennia.

Unstable boundaries on a cliffed coast: geomorphology and British laws, by Derek J. McGlashan, Robert W. Duck, and Colin T. Reid, published 2008 in Journal of Coastal Research  (vol. 24, article, pp.181-188)

Coastal erosion is a problem around much of the coast of Great Britain. This paper uses the example of Birling Gap in East Sussex to highlight a variety of problems associated with property boundaries on eroding cliffed coasts. The legal foreshore definitions (generally owned by the Crown) from English and Scots laws are compared with the use of tidal data from the nearest reliable tide gauge at Newhaven. With a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet model and shore profiling, these data are used to identify the extent of private property in the coastal environment at Birling Gap under both Scots and English law. The paper highlights that under both definitions, a small parcel of ?land? exists at the base of the cliffs that is owned by the adjacent cliff top landowner. Therefore, the foreshores as defined in (Scots and English) law on the mainland of Great Britain do not fully enclose the envelope of coastal processes. Under Scots and English law, the foreshore is defined on the basis of tidal heights, irrespective of the mobility of the substrate that the foreshore boundary is drawn on. The cliff morphology at Birling Gap strongly suggests control by marine erosion; however, the tidal data from Newhaven suggest otherwise when compared with the shore profiles. A number of reasons are identified to explain a substantial difference in the height of the beach at Birling Gap and the observed tidal heights at Newhaven, including the distance from the tide gauge, the damping effects of tide gauges, and the morphology of the beach. We conclude that, under British property laws, a small area of the upper beach (which regularly changes in shape and size) is owned by the adjacent landowner and is technically under their control despite being regularly inundated by the tides.

A topographical survey of Chanctonbury Ring, West Sussex: an interpretation of the prehistoric landscape from the Neolithic to the Middle Iron Age, by Mark Tibble, published 2008 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 146, article, pp.53-74) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15997] & The Keep [LIB/500364] & S.A.S. library   View Online

This article results from a topographical survey of the landscape and hillfort of Chanctonbury Ring, West Sussex, carried out in the summer of 2003 and the winter of 2004 by the author. Produced as an undergraduate dissertation for the University of Southampton, the survey has recorded the site as it was in 2004 and has provided a base for future management. It has also recorded previously unsurveyed features which may prove to be Bronze Age round barrows. The aim was to contextualize the hillfort within its immediate topographical setting. This has provided a background against which an interpretation might be made of the prehistoric use of the landscape. This work approached the idea of the landscape as being inscribed with meaning and significance that is carried over a long timescale beginning in the Neolithic, although it is interpreted against the varying cultural backgrounds of the prehistoric communities. It also considers the construction of the Late Bronze Age hillfort and views this construction in part as the creation of a physical link to the mythical past.