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Hawksden Forge, Mayfield, and the Sands family, by Anne Dalton, published 1998 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 18, article, pp.39-47, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506565] Download PDF
Abstract:The gazetteer entry for Hawksden Forge in The Iron Industry of the Weald refers to a Thomas Sands obtaining pig iron from Waldron Furnace from 1699 and being tenant of the forge between 1702 and 1719. There appear to have been, in fact, three Thomas Sands in that period, and a John Sands was tenant of Hawksden Forge between 1702 and 1727.