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An Inventory of the Goods and Chattels of William Shelley of Michelgrove, 1585, compiled by H. Michell Whitley, published 1912 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 55, article, pp.284-298) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2140] & The Keep [LIB/500273] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The Exodus from Sussex of the Shelleys, by the late F. Bentham Stevens, published May 1968 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVII no. 1, article, pp.1-9) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8235] & The Keep [LIB/500219] & S.A.S. library

A Poet and his Family: Percy Bysshe Shelly, by Phyl & Stanley Excell, published September 1982 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 5 no. 3, article, pp.95-100) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9174] & The Keep [LIB/501257] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Never give up on brick walls, by Sandra Shelley, published September 2001 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 14 no. 7, article, pp.290-292) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14881] & The Keep [LIB/508823] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The search for her husband's family - William Shelley who married Alice Dann in 1919 in Eastbourne.

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.