The Weald - Town history, bibliography and topography

Ashdown Forest

Also known as Lancaster Great Park from 1372 until 1672

Ashdown Forest directory of homes, farms, churches, schools, inns, and other places of interest that existed prior to 1900 has been compiled from Post Office directories, Kelly's directories, Trade directories, Census data, Ordnance survey maps and books of the period
Ashdown Forest historical notes has been derived from the same sources to highlight Ashdown Forest's key events in chronological order

Books and other documents

New Guide for Tunbridge Wells by John Colbran and edited by James Phippen in 1840 - Page 292

Ashdown Forest by The Rev. Edward Turner, M.A. in 1862 - Page 35

A Compendious History of Sussex - Volume I. by Mark Antony Lower, M.A. in 1870 - Page 21

The Parliamentarian Surveys of the County of Sussex by John Robert Daniel-Tyssen, F.S.A. in 1871 - Page 219

Pelton's Illustrated Guide to Tunbridge Wells by J. Radford Thomson, M.A. in 1883 - Page 183

Cobbett's Rural Rides by William Cobbett in 1885 - Page 83

Historical Notes of Withyham, Hartfield and Ashdown Forest by C. N. Sutton in 1902 - Page 363

English Homes and Villages (Kent & Sussex) by Lady Hope in 1909 - Page 102

The Sussex Highlands in 1927 - Page 21

Wealden Iron by Ernest Straker in 1931 - Page 246

William Augustus Raper in 1936 - Page 224

Ashdown Forest and its inclosures by Ernest Straker in 1940 - Page 121

The Parliamentarian Surveys of Ashdown Forest - Topographical Details by Ivan D. Margary, F.S.A. in 1940 - Page 137

The Ashdown Forest Dispute 1876-1882 by Professor Brian Short in 1997

People of note

Milne, Alan Alexander
(1882 - 1956)
Author

Raper, William Augustus
(1845 - 1940)
Solicitor

Sutton, Rev. Charles Nassau
(1859 - 1916)
Rector of Withyham

Ashdown Forest pictures	Cottage on the Forest 1890	The Ashdown Forest c 1900	View in the Forest c 1900	Millbrook Hill, Nutley c 1900	Sussex Hills 1904	Ladys Wood, Chelwood Gate 1904	Chelwood Manor 30th Apr 1904
	Chelwood Gate 1907	Army Volunteers, near William IV pub, Nutley 1907	Wych Cross House 1908	Littlemead, Nutley 1908	Wych Cross 1910	Colin Godmans 1910	View in the Ashdown Forest c 1910

Ashdown Forest Maps	c 1724	c 1795	c 1825	c 1875	c 1899

Sussex Maps	1610	1645	1695	c 1693	1695	1756	1763
	1st Sept 1787	1808