Publications
Richard Woodman, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.138-147) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]
Richard Woodman's Door in Warbleton Church Tower, by Major Luard, published 1865 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 17, article, pp.164-168) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2102] & The Keep [LIB/500236] & S.A.S. library View Online
Memorial to Richard Woodman, by The Editor, published 1888 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 36, notes & queries, pp.254-255) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2121] & The Keep [LIB/500254] & S.A.S. library View Online
Richard Woodman - Ironmaster and Martyr, by Tim Cornish, published 2007 in Wealden Iron Research Group (Second Series No. 27, article, pp.11-17, ISSN: 0266-4402) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506574] Download PDF
Just to the west of Warbleton church lived, in the 1550s, a bold and radical man called Richard Woodman who ran either a forge or a furnace at TQ 603176 (named 'Woodman's). 'Firm facts are short for this site . . The Woodman ascription is unproven: he was active at this time, for immigrants made charcoal for him in 1549 and 1550 . . but it is not known for certain where he worked'. His entry in Straker states that he owned Woodman's Furnace ('a very large bay, by tradition the site of Woodman's Furnace') and also that he owned or worked Steel Forge and Markly Furnace at Rushlake Green.