Heathfield

Henry III grant to the Bishop of Chichester for a Thursday market to be held at the manor; mandate to the sheriff of Sussex.
PARTIAL — published calendar is online; direct original-roll item link not verified
IHR notes the 1234 'Hadfeld' identification issue and explains why it is Heathfield.

Heathfield section within the Bishop of Chichester's Bishopstone custumal/rental; the Heathfield entry records tenants and four shops.
YES for a published transcription/edition; manuscript itself is archive-held
Earliest surviving manorial material identified so far. Published scholarship citing this custumal notes that Heathfield tenants owed seasonal woodland/timber services connected with the episcopal manorial centre at Bishopstone; use the published custumal pp. 96–98 for the wording.

Survey of the manor of Heathfield.
Retained separately from the 1253–1262 custumal/rental; no evidence found that they are the same document.

Edward II grant to John, Bishop of Chichester, of an annual fair at Heathfield.
PARTIAL — digitised calendar online; direct original item link not verified
The IHR entry discusses the feast/date tradition associated with the fair.

Edward II grant to John, Bishop of Chichester, confirming/granting the Heathfield market.
PARTIAL — digitised calendar online; direct original item link not verified
Same date/page as the fair charter; kept as a separate franchise record.

Heathfield rental cited in medieval-settlement scholarship.
The manuscript reference is tied to the Heathfield 1329/30 rental in the cited thesis discussion.

Court roll for Heathfield.

Later medieval Heathfield rental.

Rental of Heathfield.
The same scholarly literature notes Southwood in Heathfield as wooded again by 1552, but that citation was not sufficient to identify this rental's shelfmark.

Direct Patent Roll calendar entry dated 12 July 1561 records that, after the see of Chichester became void and pursuant to the Act of Exchange, the Crown took eight episcopal manors including Heathfelde. It recites a survey commission of 13 Dec 1560 and return of 22 Dec 1560; Hethfelde was certified at £6 17s. 8d. yearly.
YES — official published Patent Roll calendar inspected; original enrolled roll image not yet inspected
Important for manorial bounds/common rights. The article attributes the 1595 map to Henry Allen of Tonbridge.

Charles J. Phillips reports a counterpart deed at Knole dated 23 May 1592 by Thomas, Lord Buckhurst, to John Cobham, settling the manors and lands in Cowding, Bexhill and Heathfield on the marriage of Henry Sackville, Thomas's second son, to Alice, daughter and heiress of John Colson. This is direct Heathfield-specific evidence that Heathfield was within Thomas Sackville's disposable estate by this date.
STRONG — published description of a specific dated counterpart deed; modern archive shelfmark and original image still unresolved
The Keep confirms the ADA references collectively as Heathfield rentals/court books but does not map this date range to a single ADA number on the collection page.

Map/survey of Heathfield and Burwash Downs showing the common-land boundary, houses, beacon and pound. The Heathfield News study of BL Maps MT.6.1 (13) says the map was drawn by Henry Allen of Tonbridge for Sir Thomas Pelham, who had recently acquired ownership of the land; it also says Pelham and his early successors enclosed some of the common, mostly on Burwash Down.
PARTIAL — shelfmark/date/map content and Pelham commission/ownership statement are supported by the local study reproducing the BL map; the original map/endorsements have not been independently inspected in this project.
The Keep confirms these U269 references collectively for Heathfield court minutes, estreats, deeds, estate papers, correspondence and accounts.

Court book for Heathfield.
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Estreats for Heathfield.
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Court book for Heathfield.
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List of tenants for Heathfield.
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Court book for Heathfield.
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Court book for Heathfield.
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This broad series overlaps the separately listed 1731–1743 court book. It is retained because the source lists both; item-level mapping is needed to determine whether the overlap is substantive or merely catalogue grouping.

Rental for Heathfield.
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Series of Heathfield court books extending to the end of copyhold-era administration.
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Estreats for Heathfield.
COLLECTION SEARCH LINK ONLY — exact item unresolved
Potentially overlaps the 1691–1925 series; retained pending item-level reconciliation.

Estreats for Heathfield.
COLLECTION SEARCH LINK ONLY — exact item unresolved

Court book for Heathfield.
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Minutes for Heathfield.
COLLECTION SEARCH LINK ONLY — exact item unresolved
The public inventory assigns these account books to ESBHRO; The Keep also lists Heathfield accounts among U269 material. Item-level reconciliation is needed.

Rental for Heathfield.
COLLECTION LINK ONLY — individual item link unresolved
This is an item-level event within the broad 1691–1925 court-book series, not a duplicate of the series-level row. The transcript's description of Harriett as 'customary heiress' is retained as source wording.

Account books associated with Heathfield manor.
Start with The Keep ADA catalogue; cross-check the Kent U269 Heathfield account references if the date is not found there.
COLLECTION LINK ONLY — exact item unresolved

Court of Reginald Windsor, Earl De La Warr, Baron Buckhurst: admission of Edward Davey of Brighton, butcher, as devisee under Thomas Crismas's will dated 21 Feb 1870, to copyhold cottage and premises. The account also recites a 12 Oct 1871 conveyance by Edward Davey senior and Harriett his wife, described as Thomas Crismas's customary heiress, to Edward Davey junior to remove doubt about the devise.
PARTIAL — transcript/abstract online; original manorial court item not yet mapped to an archive shelfmark

Robert Scherewe grants Walter the Porter land in Hetfelde on the west side of Sameherst; the deed gives a detailed boundary running from Scherewe Cruche to Robert's house, through his garden to woodland and the brook beside Luke Walewein's land.

Peter, son and heir of Walter le Porter, grants Roger son of Robert de Bromham the Heathfield tenement with houses and lands beside the high road from Burghersh/Burwash towards Horeapeltre; the deed states Walter had bought it from Robert Sherreve.

British Library block of 35 charters/deeds relating to lands in several Sussex places including Heathfield; with seals.

Andrew Peverell settlement includes five messuages, two carucates and 60s rent in Ripe, Sherrington, Heathfield, Alfriston, Exceat and Eastbourne, alongside the manor of Barton in Hampshire.

Lewes Priory grants Michael Bothel and his son Thomas 4½ acres and 1½ roods at Newick in Heathfield parish, bounded by Priory land, John de Markele's land and Horeapeltre Common; annual rent 14d, suit at the first Horsted court after Michaelmas, and 14d heriot and relief.

The Sussex Inquisitiones Nonarum return includes Heathfield. Scholarly analysis of the underlying Sussex return notes substantial land out of cultivation at Heathfield and corrects the printed value of tenements of the Prior of Hastings at Heathfield to 6 marks rather than 4.

British Library Add Roll 31237 is catalogued as a Bishopstone Manor manorial roll. Medieval-settlement scholarship explicitly states that Add Rolls 31237, 31241 and 31242 were examined when sampling the Bishopstone records relevant to its Wealden outlier at Heathfield.

British Library Add Roll 31241 is catalogued as a Bishopstone Manor manorial roll and is one of the three rolls specifically examined in scholarship for the Bishopstone/Heathfield outlier material.

British Library Add Roll 31242 is catalogued as a Bishopstone Manor manorial roll. A scholarly transcription/summary cites this roll for a Heathfield tenant who dismantled a barn and reused its timbers to build two privies (domus necessariorum).

A Heathfield tenant paid a fine to remove a kitchen and rebuild it on another tenement; the replacement was not maintained and became rotten. The scholarly footnote identifies the underlying record as British Library Add Roll 31252, membrane 1v.

Sussex IPM concerning Katherine, late wife of Sir Andrew Peverell: at Hethfeld she held in dower a third part of 100 acres called Saperton, a third part of a park there, and 4d rent of assize, held of Richard de Poynings by knight service.

IPM records lands and tenements in Sapperton in the parish of Heathfield held of the Bishop of Chichester, Lord Poynings and the heir of John Benfeld in free socage, annual value 100s.

IPM describes Sapperton lands in Heathfield: 100 acres pasture valued at 1d per acre and 150 acres formerly enclosed valued at 2d per acre, held of the Prior of Lewes and Robert de Poynings, knight, in socage.

The Ashburnham archive contains records of twenty manors, with particularly good runs for Burwash, Burghurst in Burwash, Cowden, Dallington and Netherfield. These holdings are important for explaining the Earl of Ashburnham's appearance as a Heathfield 'lord of the manor' in Victorian directories.

A licence cited for enclosure of 2,000 acres in Heathfield and Bishopstone; relevant to lordship land/use but not itself a manorial court record.

An academic study states that the Pelhams held the demesne manors of Crowhurst, Burwash and Bivelham in 1465 and at later periods and consequently claimed jurisdiction over the waste of the Rape of Hastings, including land in Warbleton and Heathfield. It further states that after the 1561 removal of Bishopstone/Heathfield from the Bishop of Chichester, Heathfield became a separate manor and the Pelhams acquired Bishopstone.

The Keep's history of eastern Sussex coronerships states that the Bishop of Chichester's coroner could sit wherever the bishop had tenants and held inquests at Heathfield in 1502, explicitly describing Heathfield as part of Bishopstone hundred.

The official Patent Roll calendar records the Crown taking the Manor of Heathfield with seven other Chichester episcopal manors under the Act-of-Exchange machinery. A 13 Dec 1560 survey commission and 22 Dec return are recited; Heathfield was valued at £6 17s. 8d. yearly.

Grant to Sir Richard Sackville and Winifred his wife includes the Manor of Wilmington and its appurtenances in a list of Sussex places including Buisshoppeston and Hethefelde, together with other former Dean and Chapter property. The wording does not grant the Manor of Heathfield itself.

A published iron-industry gazetteer states that Catsfield Furnace was part of the Manor of Bexhill, 'owned by the Sackvilles, in 1567', citing ESRO photocopy ACC 2631 of KHLC U269/M20. The Keep's official Bexhill history instead says Elizabeth I granted Bexhill to Thomas Sackville in 1570.

Official Calendar of Patent Rolls records John Pelham licensed to alienate the manors of Burwash, Crowhurst and Bivelham together with lands in Warbleton, Heathfield, Mayfield, Brightling, Burwash, Dallington, Crowhurst, Wadhurst, Ticehurst, Hoathly and Hartfield to trustees for the use of Judith Pelham and the Pelham heirs male.

Licence for William Upton, Edward Worseley, Christopher Stanley and Christopher Hennage to alienate the manors of Lullington/Loyngton and Milton/Middleton and lands in a long list of Sussex places including Bishopstone to Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst. Heathfield is not included in this entry.

A catalogue transcription of SAS-PN/735 records Anthony Staple of Framfield conveying to Thomas Pelham of Laughton and James Thetcher of Presthawes, in consideration of Staple's marriage to Anne Thetcher and £500 paid by James Thetcher. Among the property were Beckington with lands in Warbleton and Heathfield (300a; occupied by John Fermor), Nettlesworth in Heathfield (100a; occupied by John Fermor), and Mylkeherst in Heathfield (80a; occupied by an unnamed Downes).

Reported transfer of Heathfield from the vacant Bishopric of Chichester to the Crown and subsequent grant to Thomas Sackville.

Thomas Prettye of Wartling and Lucy his wife, daughter and heir of William Tookye deceased, v Anthony Hatheropp of Brenchley: dispute over possession of 200 acres of land in Heathfield called Mylkeherst, late of John Tookye of Wartling, Lucy's grandfather.

The Buckhurst Terrier surveys the Sackville estate for Sir Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst. Sussex Record Society bibliography describes it as a full manorial account of about 17 manors, surveyed by Thomas Marshall, with a series of 40 maps. The Keep identifies the surviving originals as DLW/392A-B; Heathfield is indexed in the published edition.

Licence to impark 600 acres at Heathfield; associated land-rights evidence.

William Fagge, gent., plaintiff, and Richard Alfray, esq., with Agnes his wife, deforciants: Manor of Sapperton/Saberton/Rontington and tenements in Heathfield and Warbleton quitclaimed to William Fagge and his heirs.

National Trust heritage records identify a Pelham composite court book for the Manors of Burwash. It provides a primary comparative route into the Pelham jurisdiction bordering later Heathfield downs issues.

Private Act 13 Cha. 2 St. 1 c. 6 settled Knole, Seal and Kemsing on the Earl of Dorset and his heirs while charging Bexhill, Cowding and 'other Lands in the County of Sussex' with a £130 annual rentcharge. Heathfield is NOT named in the Act title, but its earlier documented grouping with Bexhill and Cowding makes the full Act/schedule a worthwhile title-chain target.

National Trust heritage records identify an Ashburnham rental for the Manor of Burwash, giving a direct route into Ashburnham's neighbouring manorial administration.

Newbery family of Heathfield: papers of Francis Newbery. Francis Newbery acquired Heathfield Park in 1791, so the collection may contain deeds, correspondence or estate papers relevant to the park/estate during his ownership.

East Sussex Record Office's 2006–07 annual report records an accession described as 'Heathfield House estate, scanned copy of map by John Ridgway, 1707'.

National Trust heritage records identify a Pelham composite court book for the Manor of Burwash immediately before the later Pelham/Ashburnham transition under investigation.

Specialist transcription of ESRO ACC 7755/7/3 records division of part of Henry Pelham's Sussex estate. Lot 2 expressly includes the manors of Burwash and Burghurst, plus Dallington, Brightling and Warbleton property. High-value route for Target 13 because it fixes which neighbouring Pelham manors/estates were in the 1716–1767 division.

Kent Archives identifies U269/E50 as the 1717 schedule of title deeds in the Knole Muniment Room and U269/E51 as the 1808 schedule for more recent deeds. The catalogue states that after the 1828 partition many deeds for Elizabeth, Countess De La Warr's share were handed to Lord De La Warr, and that E50 was marked in ink accordingly around the 1829 partition.

Sale of Bayley Park (later Heathfield Park), stated as about 227 acres, with a covenant reserving to Major John Fuller liberty to draw water from estate ponds, including the Banqueting House pond, for his furnaces subject to sluice levels.

Deeds of Priors, 4–8 Church Street, Heathfield, within the Heathfield House Estate. The catalogue-derived description begins with a 1733 mortgage and detailed property bounds. It records Ann Howell paying repairs, taxes and manorial quitrent in 1751, and Thomas Howell paying manorial quitrent in 1764.

ESRO CHR/13/12 records a final concord between Thomas Heaton and Thomas Francis, gent., and Lewis Watson, esq., and Grace his wife. It conveys a quarter of numerous named manors including Burwash, Burghurst, Bivelham, Cowden and Dallington, plus very large categories of land, meadow, pasture, wood, furze/heath in a long parish list that expressly includes Heathfield.

Trash v Wood concerns a copyhold messuage and premises held of the Manor of Heathfield. Elizabeth Swane's will of 26 May 1763 followed a surrender to the use of her will. The later Chancery litigation proved the manor's customary descent to the younger/youngest son and records deductions for taxes, lord's rent, repairs and expenses.

Plan from a cropbook for the Heathfield Estate.

Heathfield Park sale particulars; associated estate history.

Humphry Repton Red Book for Heathfield Park.

Official TNA 2011 accessions listing records Sackville family, Earls De La Warr household papers comprising tradesmen's and labourers' accounts, corn accounts and household accounts, 1813–1930, as ACC 10939.

Official TNA accessions listing records Sackville family, Earls De La Warr additional correspondence spanning 1815–2006 as ACC 9403. The accession is also listed under the DLW parent fonds. It potentially covers the modern estate-management period but no Heathfield sale document has yet been identified within it.

William Figg map of the Heathfield estate.

The Keep states that Heathfield National School ('Round School') was built on former waste of the Manor of Heathfield; it opened in November 1819. The surviving watercolour of the school is ESC 289/3/1.

On the death of Arabella, Duchess of Dorset, the Sackville estates were divided between her daughters. National Trust states that Buckhurst and the Sussex estates went to Elizabeth Sackville, wife of George West, 5th Earl De La Warr; the Knole Estate history states that Arabella's will divided the estates.

Will of Thomas Nailard, farmer of Heathfield. It devises 'Common Field', about six acres near the Burwash–Lewes turnpike, expressly held as copyhold of the Manor of Heathfield; also a cottage and about 10 acres 3 roods of waste ground near Swiss Corner on Heathfield Down, and directs payment of quitrents due from his hereditaments and real estate.

Official TNA accessions data records additional papers of the Sackville family, Earls De La Warr, spanning c.1826–2012 as ACC 11382. The Keep's DLW parent catalogue also lists ACC 11382 among later accessions. Item-level Heathfield contents are not exposed on the parent page.

Will of James Ashdown, farmer of Heathfield, refers to hereditaments in Heathfield held of the Manor of Sapperton and occupied by himself and James Haffenden.

Schedule of deeds relating to De La Warr estates in Sussex, Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire and the City of London. The Keep identifies this exact item in its Hartfield guide and places it within DLW 370–392, the abstracts-of-title and schedules-of-deeds series.

Heathfield tithe map and award/apportionment: parish-wide ownership, occupation, plot and land-use survey useful for reconstructing holdings and later manor/common boundaries.

National Trust heritage records identify an Ashburnham Rental of the Manor of Burwash & Burghurst. Its date is only 17 years before Kelly's 1867 plural-lord wording at Heathfield, making it a high-value comparator for the 'three lords' problem.

Henry Chrismas of Heathfield, gent., and Thomas Chrismas of Bexhill, gent., to George Thomas of Catsfield, appraiser: Hale Hill Farm property in Heathfield comprising a messuage, barn, garden and land, with several parcels near South Bishop's Wood; late parochial admeasurement 22 acres 2 roods 11 perches, with detailed road and neighbouring-owner boundaries.

Official TNA accessions data identifies composite rentals for the manors of Ashburnham, Broomham, Broomham Parkgate, Allfrays, Burwash, Burghurst, Cowden, Dallington, Hasleden, Hastings, Ittington, Netherfield, Rockland and Wartling.

Kelly's Post Office Directory for 1867 states of Heathfield: 'The Earls of Ashburnham, Chichester, and De La Warr are lords of the manor.' This contemporaneous plural-lordship wording conflicts with any simplistic narrative of a single uncontested parish-wide manor and requires identification of the separate manorial interests or jurisdictions meant by the directory.

The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales describes Heathfield property as subdivided and says the manor belongs to the Earls Ashburnham, Chichester and De La Warr. This independently repeats the three-earl formulation found in the 1867 directory.

Watsons of Heathfield, valuers and estate agents: the current The Keep WAT catalogue describes valuations and sale particulars for 1873–1976. The older TNA 2005 accession listing for ACC 9131 described E Watson & Sons material as c.1870–1990; that broader accession range is retained as a catalogue-history discrepancy, not as the current fonds date.

Kelly's Heathfield entry calls Heathfield Park the seat of Sir Charles William Blunt but expressly says it was occupied by Frederick Henry Scott; it also lists Scott at Heathfield Park and Edmund Brand as land steward to Sir Charles Blunt. This directly resolves the Scott first-name problem for the documented occupier by 1878.

1881 census transcription places Frederick H. Scott, age 42, barrister at law (not in practice), at Heathfield Park with wife Edith R. Scott. This independently confirms Frederick's residence between the 1878 directory occupation evidence and the 1890 sale period.

ESRO annual reporting identifies the 1890 marriage settlement of Lionel Charles Cranfield Sackville, Viscount Cantelupe, with Dorothy Heseltine, with associated papers, as accession 11603.

Heathfield Horticultural Society's history states that the Society was founded in 1890 and that 'Francis Scott, the new owner of Heathfield Park' strongly promoted its creation. This conflicts with contemporary evidence naming Frederick Henry Scott as the resident and must be preserved as an unresolved identity/ownership clue.

Kelly's 1890 Sussex directory county-magistrates list places Sir Charles William Blunt and Frederick Henry Scott in the same Hailsham petty-sessional division, both associated with Heathfield Park. This independently confirms Frederick Henry Scott remained the relevant Scott around the 1890 sale period.

A digitised Sussex directory page headed 'LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL SEATS IN SUSSEX' lists 'Heathfield park, Frederick Henry Scott esq. D.L., J.P.' This is stronger than a simple residence entry and shows Frederick Henry Scott recognised as the named holder/occupant of the seat immediately around the post-Blunt sale period.

Sir Charles William Blunt died 5 Nov 1890 and Sir William Blunt succeeded as 7th Bt. Contemporary Debrett 1893 still lists Heathfield Park among Sir William's seats. This conflicts with the broad Historic England statement that the Blunt family sold the estate in lots in 1890 and with local/secondary claims of a Scott purchase that year.

Heathfield parish records include a dedicated 'Parish green' series.

Kelly's Directory for 1899 again states that the Earls of Ashburnham, Chichester and De La Warr are lords of the manor at Heathfield, showing that the plural-lordship description persisted for at least three decades.

Kelly's Directory of Sussex (1899) places Frederick Henry Scott at Brightling Park, whose property owner is separately stated as P. Tew. This establishes that the Frederick Henry Scott documented at Heathfield Park in 1878/1890 had moved to Brightling by 1899.

Kelly's Directory of Sussex (1899) describes Heathfield Park as occupied by William Cleverly Alexander and lists him among the principal landowners; the same entry repeats that the Earls of Ashburnham, Chichester and De La Warr are lords of the manor.

Heathfield valuation list ('Doomsday' land/property valuation) under the 1910 Finance Act survey system.

The Keep states that the manorial records of the Sackville/De La Warr estate were deposited in East Sussex Record Office in 1960 by Adams of Lewes, solicitors, by permission of Lord De La Warr, and are now kept under reference ADA. Heathfield is explicitly one of the manors represented in that ADA deposit.

Sale particulars for Heathfield Park listed in the Historic England/Parks & Gardens archival bibliography.

Commons and Greens index lists THE VILLAGE GREEN - CADE STREET - HEATHFIELD as register unit/decision No. VG.6. The indexed PDF is available, but its contents could not be fetched in this run.

The Keep's 2015 accessions report lists 'De La Warr of Buckhurst Park, papers, 2014-2015 (addnl)' as accession 12091.

The Keep's 2016 annual accessions report lists 'De La Warr of Buckhurst, in Withyham, papers, 2015 (addnl)' as accession 12495.

Manorial Services' Winter 2024 catalogue lists the Lordship of the Manor of Heathfield as Lot 6, marks Heathfield 'sold', and gives an asking price of £8,500. The Heathfield history states that the Sackville family held the manor until the very end of the 20th century, when it was purchased by the family of the then-current owners.

London Gazette notice states that Christopher Repetsky and Agata Repetsky are seised with Full Title Guarantee of the legal and beneficial title and ownership of the Lordship or Reputed Lordship of the Manor of Heathfield, having succeeded to it by Conveyance on 3 February 2025.

Francis Newbery exercise book concerning plantations around the Gibraltar Tower at Heathfield Park.

Parties: Robert Scherewe -> Walter the Porter
Scope: Heathfield land

Parties: Peter, son/heir of Walter le Porter -> Roger son of Robert de Bromham
Scope: Heathfield land
Explicitly recites Walter's prior purchase from Robert Sherreve.

Parties: Roger de Bromham -> Milo de Columbers
Scope: Heathfield land
Kept because it may continue the Bromham chain; do not treat as proven until original citation is resolved.

Parties: Andrew Peverell; Richard de Rodmell; Roger, parson of Blatchington
Scope: Multi-place property incl. Heathfield
Not Manor of Heathfield title evidence.

Parties: Lewes Priory -> Michael Bothel and Thomas his son
Scope: Heathfield parish tenure
Strong tenure-rights record.

Parties: Katherine, late wife of Sir Andrew Peverell; heirs Edmund FitzHerbert and John Brocas named in the calendared IPM
Scope: Sapperton, Heathfield parish
Adds a 1376 tenure/extent stage before the 1406 and 1416 IPMs.

Parties: Estate of deceased tenant / overlords listed in IPM
Scope: Sapperton, Heathfield parish
Free socage, annual value 100s.

Parties: Estate recorded in IPM
Scope: Sapperton, Heathfield parish
Held in socage of Prior of Lewes and Robert de Poynings.

Parties: Crown -> Sir Richard Sackville and Winifred Sackville
Scope: Heathfield locality land/appurtenance; NOT a grant of the Manor of Heathfield
The patent arose after the Dean and Chapter/Chancellor, with Bishop William's consent, granted the premises to the Crown by writing of 8 Dec 7 Eliz., enrolled in Chancery, in trust for a fee-simple patent to Richard Sackville. Do not convert 'appurtenances in Hethefelde' into the manorial lordship.

Parties: Anthony Staple of Framfield -> Thomas Pelham of Laughton and James Thetcher of Presthawes; transaction recites Staple's marriage to Anne Thetcher and £500 paid by James Thetcher
Scope: Substantial Heathfield landholding; not proved to be a conveyance of the Manor of Heathfield

Parties: Thomas Prettye and Lucy his wife v Anthony Hatheropp
Scope: Heathfield land; tenure under Manor of Heathfield not stated

Parties: William Fagge; Richard Alfray and Agnes
Scope: Sapperton + Heathfield tenements
Secondary account states c.227 acres and £2,400 sale price.

Parties: Major John Fuller sale of Bayley Park
Scope: Heathfield Park estate
Important bridge between an 18th-century Heathfield surrender and a 19th-century reported custom case.

Parties: Elizabeth Swane -> trustees Richard Collins and Joseph Harmer -> beneficial interests including grandson Jonathan Trash; later Trash v Wood litigation
Scope: Manor of Heathfield
Underlying manor admissions/surrenders for Common Field and the waste parcel remain to be found.

Parties: Thomas Nailard -> Thomas Nailard Akehurst and William Akehurst interests
Scope: Manor of Heathfield and Heathfield Down
Kent Archives states that the estate passed to the two co-heiresses in 1825, partition arrangements were complete by 1828, and many deeds for Elizabeth's share were handed to Lord De La Warr, with the old E50 schedule marked in ink around the partition. Inspect E50/E51 and Appendix I for Heathfield before treating this as a direct Heathfield conveyance.

Parties: Mary, Countess of Plymouth; Elizabeth, Countess De La Warr; Sackville estate / Lord De La Warr
Scope: Estate-level title-deed administration — Heathfield-specific schedule entry still required
Evidence of surviving copyhold relationship.

Parties: James Ashdown and devisees
Scope: Sapperton copyhold in Heathfield
Useful contextual property chain for the Chrismas family later appearing in the Manor of Heathfield court.

Parties: Henry Chrismas and Thomas Chrismas -> George Thomas, appraiser, as trustee
Scope: Heathfield freehold/estate property; manorial tenure not stated
Harriett is described in the source as the customary heiress of Thomas Crismas.

Parties: Edward Davey senior and Harriett Davey -> Edward Davey junior; admission in court of Reginald Windsor, Earl De La Warr
Scope: Manor of Heathfield

Parties: Sir Charles William Blunt (seat/estate association); Frederick Henry Scott (documented occupier/resident)
Scope: Private Heathfield Park estate; NOT proof of Manor of Heathfield lordship
Frederick Henry/H. Scott's residence is well supported. Ownership is not. A separate local-history source calls Francis Scott the 'new owner' in 1890, so Frederick and Francis must remain separate identities unless the primary conveyance proves otherwise.

Parties: Blunt estate -> [1890 purchaser identity unresolved: local sources name Francis Scott; Frederick H. Scott is independently resident] -> William Cleverly Alexander
Scope: Private Heathfield Park estate; not Manor of Heathfield lordship

Parties: Thomas Heaton and Thomas Francis, gent. ↔ Lewis Watson, esq., and Grace his wife
Scope: Pelham/Watson estate transaction; Heathfield appears in land-parish list, not the named quarter-manor list
Do not convert this into a quarter share of the Manor of Heathfield. Its value is that it proves a distinct Pelham/Watson-linked land interest physically present in Heathfield parish.

Parties: John Pelham -> trustees; use of Judith Pelham with remainder to John Pelham and heirs male
Scope: Pelham estate; Heathfield is a land locality, not a named manor in this instrument
Strong Target 13 evidence for overlapping land/jurisdiction, not Pelham ownership of the Sackville/De La Warr Manor of Heathfield.

Prints the Sussex 1341 taxation returns from TNA material; the Heathfield material is in the Sussex section around p.356. Later scholarship identifies minor errors in the printed Heathfield values and cites the underlying TNA return E 179/189/17.
Useful for searchable/page-image access. Cross-check Heathfield figures against the underlying record because the scholarly appendix identifies a printed error.

Direct authority on Heathfield copyhold custom: youngest/younger son as customary heir; identifies a 1763 surrender-to-will, copyhold messuage, and lord's rent.
Original Chancery pleadings and the underlying Manor of Heathfield court surrender/admission remain research targets.

States that the Thursday market was still held at the Crown Inn; gives parish area as 7,970 acres; and says the Earls of Ashburnham, Chichester and De La Warr were 'lords of the manor'.
The plural 'lords of the manor' is ambiguous and may refer to multiple manors/interests in the parish; do not read it as proof that all three jointly held the Manor of Heathfield.

Prints 1337 Heathfield/Newick/Horeapeltre charter with rent, court suit, heriot and relief.
Underlying charter still to identify.

Contains A.4157 and A.4163 Heathfield conveyance descriptions.
Critical primary-record finding aid.

Contains a dedicated Heathfield chapter and a contemporary description of Heathfield Park, its landscape, ownership tradition and Gibraltar Tower.
Secondary narrative; useful for early-20th-century estate/topographical description, not title proof.

Dedicated Heathfield local history; cited by Historic England for Heathfield Park.
No complete open scan located.

Focused discussion of lost Heathfield common and boundary evidence.
Some modern citations call this 1928; SRS bibliography gives 1925. Record the discrepancy rather than normalising it.

Published edition of episcopal manuscripts; Heathfield material around pp.96–98.

Local place names useful for bounds/commons.

Includes Horeappeltre/Heathfield place-name discussion.

Additional Heathfield topography/place names.

Land-name/parish landscape context.

Historic Heathfield forms; important for Hadfeld/Heathfield and Horeappeltre place-name evidence.
Useful boundary/place-name evidence.

Confirms survey by Thomas Marshall for Sir Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst; describes a full manorial account of about 17 manors and 40 maps; gives archive/library access locations for the published volume.

Sackville estate survey; Heathfield appears in place index.
Publication year appears as 1933 in bibliographic sources; The Keep catalogue cites SRS 39 (1934). Preserve this bibliographic discrepancy.

Dedicated Heathfield section under Hundred of Hawksborough; manorial/parish/estate history.
Useful secondary synthesis; verify claims against cited originals.

Estate guide.

Scholarly context for the 1559 Act of Exchange and its implementation. II p.34.

Detailed Heathfield ironworks economic/ownership history; relevant to water, ponds and estate use.
Industrial history is associated evidence, not manor title.

Site survey and physical remains of Heathfield furnace.

Detailed estate/property history; cited for water rights, ownership and landscape.
No open full-text copy located.

Raw-material/property landscape relevant to Heathfield ironworks.

Consecutive property/tax/map series including land tax 1706–1930, tithe 1841/42, valuation 1911.
Screenshot retrieval failed from cached PDF, but text/page references are available.

Contains the complete transcript of Thomas Nailard's 1826 will, ESRO PBT 1/1/76/200, including Common Field copyhold of the Manor of Heathfield, 10a 3r waste ground near Swiss Corner and quitrents.
Modern transcript resource; always cite the ESRO probate original as the underlying record.

Uses medieval deeds and later sources relating to Heathfield Down/Horeapeltre and historic common landscape.
Battlefield thesis is contested and is not treated here as established; retained for its source work on Heathfield Down and Horeapeltre.

Contains James Ashdown will with hereditaments held of Manor of Sapperton.
Modern transcript; original probate at The Keep.

Settlement development, tithe/map references, historic topography.
Useful synthesis and map guide.

Engraved Heathfield Park landscape and descriptive text mentioning the park, house and Cuckmere source.
Visual/topographic evidence, not legal evidence.

Exact Heathfield rental/custumal citations and a methodological comparison of the 1329/30 and 1379/80 rentals; Southwood common/waste; customary services.

Cites Heathfield enclosure/impark licences 1447 and 1610 and other park evidence.

Detailed reconstruction of the 1595 Heathfield/Burwash Downs map in the modern landscape. The authors report tracing much of the boundary through surviving hedgerows/streams and using Heathfield and Burwash tithe maps where historic hedges had disappeared.
Highest-value remaining source for the authors' detailed overlay/control-point work. Obtain and inspect before constructing a coordinate polygon; this is mapping evidence, not legal title proof.

Direct published-calendar text for the 12 Jul 1561 Chichester exchange entry naming the Manor of Heathfield, the 1560 survey commission/return and Heathfield's £6 17s. 8d. annual valuation.

Contains no.1122, 15 Feb 1565: grant to Richard and Winifred Sackville of Wilmington and appurtenances extending into Hethefelde, plus other former Chichester Dean and Chapter property.
Heathfield appears as a locality of Wilmington appurtenances; this is not a grant of the Manor of Heathfield.

Negative result is limited to the searchable/calendar text and spelling/index coverage; it is not proof that no separate non-patent instrument existed.

Covers the only early Patent Roll interval left between the directly inspected 1565 and 1569–72 volumes. Potentially relevant to the missing Crown-to-Sackville Manor of Heathfield grant.

Finite search ladder for the still-missing Crown-to-Sackville Manor of Heathfield instrument after the published HMSO CPR volumes. Particularly important are 27 Eliz. 1584–85, 28 Eliz. 1585–86, 29 Eliz. 1586–87, 30 Eliz. 1587–88, 33 Eliz. 1590–91 and 34 Eliz. 1591–92.
This converts the old 'search Patent Rolls before 1592' task into a defined volume-by-volume job. Do not infer absence from volumes that have only been bibliographically identified.

Contains high-value Heathfield social/landownership context; p.18 links 1767 Burwash purchase to Chichester/Ashburnham disputes and gives 1842 parish ownership figures citing TDE16.
Target 13 and land-mass comparator. Preserve 'probably originating' wording as the author's qualified interpretation.

Direct contemporary evidence for Heathfield Park occupation: Sir Charles William Blunt's seat, occupied by Frederick Henry Scott; also three-lords wording and parish acreage.
Useful for Targets 12 and 13. Occupancy is not equivalent to freehold ownership.

Places both Sir Charles William Blunt and Frederick Henry Scott in the Heathfield Park context around the documented 1890 lot sale.
Does not itself identify purchaser, ownership date or sale lots.

The collection remains a broad Sussex antiquarian resource, but 21.9 is not a verified manorial route.
[Inference] PR appears from context to be the parish-register category. Do not treat this entry as evidence concerning the Manor/Lordship of Heathfield.

Places William Cleverly Alexander at Heathfield Park, names him among principal landowners, and repeats the Ashburnham/Chichester/De La Warr plural-lord wording.
Original page image remains preferable for final evidential bundle.

Records Frederick Henry Scott resident at Brightling Park by 1899, while P. Tew is separately stated to own the property.
Important residence chronology for Target 12; does not prove Heathfield Park conveyance.

Contemporary 1893 entry for Sir William Blunt, 7th Bt., still lists Heathfield Park among his seats after his succession in November 1890, complicating the asserted 1890 sale sequence.

Lists Heathfield Park under the principal seats with Frederick Henry Scott esq. D.L., J.P.; useful direct contemporary evidence around the 1890 sale transition.
Do not convert a seat-listing into legal freehold ownership.

1595 Heathfield/Burwash Downs boundary with houses/residents outside, beacon and pound. Fletcher/Mackenzie state they largely relocated the line using surviving hedges/streams, using Heathfield and Burwash tithe maps where hedges had disappeared.

Early visual record of the park/house landscape
Heathfield Park estate, not manor extent.

Archive accession explicitly described as a scanned copy of a 1707 map of the Heathfield House estate.
Heathfield House estate only until relationship to the Manor of Heathfield is established

Late-C18 estate layout; Historic England says northern/eastern fields were imparked between Fuller's 1781–90 plan and Figg's 1819 map.

Topographical view of Bayley/Heathfield Park
Estate visual.

View from the house across Bailey Park
Heathfield Park/Bailey Park estate visual

Northern view of Bailey Park
Heathfield Park/Bailey Park estate visual

Southern view of Bailey Park
Heathfield Park/Bailey Park estate visual

House/park view during Lord Heathfield period
Estate visual; title refers to Baron Heathfield, not manorial title.

Approaches, setting, park/lake landscape proposals
Estate design.

Heathfield and surrounding landscape at county scale
Context map; not manor-specific.

Mill and water landscape at Heathfield
Potential industrial/watercourse context.

Historic visual reference to Heathfield Park
Image itself not located here.

Multiple Heathfield landscape viewpoints
Topographic visual evidence.

Broad view of Heathfield Park/house and surrounding landscape
Estate/landscape view.

Detailed estate plan; ponds, boundaries and park layout
Estate map.

The circular school built on former waste of the Manor of Heathfield; painting may date c.1819–1830 or have been painted from memory
Manorial-waste context; image is not the legal title instrument

Early-19th-century house/park view
Estate visual.

Successive boundaries, buildings, roads, park and land-use detail
Map-series resource rather than one archive item.

Historic England states the Blunt family sold the estate in lots in 1890. The exact sale plan, purchaser and lot sequence remain unlocated.

Ratepayer/property occupation context

Owners/occupiers and assessed property over long run

Short early ratepayer series

Household/property-value proxy

Owners/occupiers and assessed property

Road/property liability and occupier context

Owners/occupiers and property-rate evidence

Long-run ownership/occupation and valuation evidence

Ratepayer/property context

Plot-level ownership, occupation, land use and exact boundary crosswalk for the two 1826 will anchors

Property valuations immediately before Finance Act survey

Published analysis of the 1910 valuation material gives the Ashburnham Estate 69 acres in Heathfield parish (about 1% of the parish), alongside much larger holdings in Burwash, Warbleton and neighbouring parishes.

Detailed ownership/property-value reconstruction

Property valuation follow-up

Interwar property valuation

Property valuation

Ancient Deeds A.4157 description
Episcopal-period Heathfield; transaction is private land, not lordship title
Open scan
Original deed image not located online.

Ancient Deeds A.4163 description
Episcopal-period Heathfield; private conveyance
Open scan
Original deed image not located online.

Published edition, Heathfield material around pp.96–98
Bishop of Chichester
Available online through FamilySearch
No online image of the WSRO manuscript itself located.

Calendar page 306
John, Bishop of Chichester
Open PDF
Original Charter Roll image not located online.

AALT IMG_0313
Direct image URL identified
This is the strongest true original-document scan link currently identified.

Sussex section pp.350–403; Heathfield around p.356
Bishop of Chichester period; royal taxation record
Open scan/PDF
Scholarly source identifies a minor printed error in a Heathfield value.

1 physical roll
Bishop of Chichester / episcopal Bishopstone-Heathfield administration
Physical request required
Priority reproduction request.

1 physical roll
Bishop of Chichester / episcopal Bishopstone-Heathfield administration
Physical request required
Priority reproduction request.

Specific Heathfield entry cited by scholarship; membrane/date unresolved
Bishop of Chichester / episcopal Bishopstone-Heathfield administration
Physical request required
Priority reproduction request.

Membrane 1v
Episcopal Bishopstone-Heathfield administration
Physical request/reference-service lookup required
Priority reproduction request.

pp.142–143
Not the Heathfield lord's court; associated tenure/common evidence
Open PDF
Underlying medieval charter still to identify.

35-item block; individual Heathfield charters unresolved
Spans episcopal/Sackville transition eras
Physical consultation/request
Break down item by item before ordering.

Reproduction shows parts of the historic map
Sackville/Pelham ownership/commission context disputed in secondary sources
Online reproduction available

Published SRS vol.39 epitome/page images; originals DLW/392A-B. Physical published copies: WSRO Lib 2255/8038; The Keep LIB/500411.
Sir Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst; later preserved in Earl De La Warr family archive
HathiTrust page-image route
Need extract exact Heathfield pages and then request corresponding original folios.

Watercolour view
De La Warr/Sackville estate period; article states site was former manorial waste
Image shown online; higher-quality digital image viewable at The Keep
Visual evidence, not the legal grant of the waste parcel.

Compiled transcript pp.238–240
De La Warr/Sackville manor period
Open PDF
Original will image not located online.

Transcript within compiled wills PDF
Associated Sapperton manor in Heathfield parish
Open PDF
Not Manor of Heathfield proper.

Court date and parties supplied by transcript
Reginald Windsor, Earl De La Warr, Baron Buckhurst
Transcript online; original image not located
High-priority court-book image target.

ESRO annual report explicitly says 'scanned copy of map by John Ridgway, 1707'
Heathfield House estate; owner/manor relationship to verify
Scanned copy exists at archive; public access route unresolved
High-value image request: ask The Keep whether the scanned copy can be supplied digitally and for its current catalogue reference.

Catalogue-derived description includes 1733 mortgage/bounds and 1751/1764 manorial quitrent references
Heathfield property; payee manor not stated in extracted catalogue text
Open transcript PDF route; originals archive-held

List of lots p.4 marks 'Heathfield, Sussex - sold' with £8,500 asking price; Heathfield text p.19 states end-of-20th-century purchase by the family of the then-current owners.
Post-De-La-Warr private ownership / 2024 sale
Open PDF
Useful public sale evidence. Vendor identity, earlier family name, title epitome and actual completed sale price are not disclosed.

Calendar p.34; 3 Eliz. Part II; entry m.40 onward
Crown acquisition from Chichester episcopal estate
Open Internet Archive scan/full text; original C 66/964 requires TNA access
First direct published primary-record route for the 1561 Heathfield Crown acquisition.

No.1122, pp.230–231; mm.37–39
Richard and Winifred Sackville; Heathfield locality interest
Open Internet Archive scan/full text; original C 66/1011 requires TNA access
Not a grant of the Manor of Heathfield; wording concerns Wilmington appurtenances.

Full volume/index searched for Heathfield/Heathefeld and Sackville/Buckhurst context
Crown/Sackville transition search
Open Internet Archive scan/full text
Only Heathfield index hit located is an unrelated 1570 pardon; 1571 Bishopstone grant to Buckhurst omits Heathfield.

Internet Archive identifier calendarofpatent04grea_1
Crown -> Sackville Heathfield title-search window
Do not record a negative Heathfield result for this volume until the index/text is directly inspected.

Heathfield section in Bishopstone custumal/rental, 1253–1262

Heathfield rental, 1329/30

One of the two 14th-century Heathfield rentals; treated here as 1379/80

Heathfield rentals and court books (collective Heathfield list)

Heathfield rentals and court books (collective Heathfield list)

Heathfield rentals and court books (collective Heathfield list)

Heathfield rentals and court books (collective Heathfield list)

Heathfield rentals and court books (collective Heathfield list)

Heathfield rentals and court books (collective Heathfield list)

Heathfield rentals and court books (collective Heathfield list)

Heathfield court minutes / estreats etc. within collective U269 Heathfield list

Heathfield court minutes / estreats etc. within collective U269 Heathfield list

Heathfield deeds / manorial or estate papers within collective U269 Heathfield list

Heathfield estate papers within collective U269 Heathfield list

Heathfield correspondence within collective U269 Heathfield list

Heathfield accounts within collective U269 Heathfield list

1595 map/survey of Heathfield and Burwash Downs

1379 Heathfield court roll

13th-century grant: Robert Scherewe -> Walter the Porter, Heathfield land with physical boundary description

Peter, heir of Walter le Porter -> Roger son of Robert de Bromham, Heathfield tenement by Burwash-Horeapeltre road

35 charters/deeds, 1216–1627, including lands in Heathfield among several Sussex/Surrey places

1328 final concord including Heathfield messuages/land/rent among multi-place Sussex property

1406 Sapperton lands/tenements in Heathfield, free socage, value 100s

1416 Sapperton extent in Heathfield: 100a pasture + 150a formerly enclosed

Original Buckhurst Terrier, 1597–1598; Sackville estate survey

1721 Bayley Park conveyance/covenant reserving furnace water rights

James Ashdown will, 1832/1835, mentions Heathfield hereditaments held of Manor of Sapperton

Heathfield tithe map and award, 1841 & 1842

Parish green records, 1893–1895

Heathfield 1911 valuation list

Watercolour of Heathfield Round School; official Keep context says school was built on former waste of the Manor of Heathfield

The Village Green - Cade Street - Heathfield

1785 Grimm view: Bailey Park, N

1785 Grimm view: Bailey Park, S

1785 Grimm view: Bailey Park, from the house

12 Jun 1592: Thomas Prettye of Wartling and Lucy his wife, daughter/heir of William Tookye, v Anthony Hatheropp; possession of 200a in Heathfield called Mylkeherst, late John Tookye, Lucy's grandfather.

Thomas Nailard will, 1826/1827: Common Field copyhold of Manor of Heathfield; Heathfield Down waste; quitrents

10 May 1855 conveyance of Hale Hill Farm and associated Heathfield parcels, 22a 2r 11p

Reported case proving Heathfield customary descent to younger/youngest son and recording lord's rent

1376 dower IPM: at Hethfeld 1/3 of 100a Saperton, 1/3 park, 4d rent; held of Richard de Poynings

Bishopstone Manor manorial roll; one of three rolls explicitly sampled in scholarship for the Heathfield outlier

Bishopstone Manor manorial roll; explicitly sampled for Bishopstone/Heathfield material

Bishopstone Manor manorial roll; cited for Heathfield tenant reusing barn timbers for two privies

Heathfield tenant fined/allowed to remove a kitchen and rebuild it on another tenement; later rotten

Cited collectively in scholarship for Southwood common/waste/woodland evidence at Heathfield

References used for Bishopstone outlying lands including Heathfield/Tottingworth

Sussex Inquisitiones Nonarum underlying return; Heathfield material printed in Vanderzee 1807

1328 foot of fine including Heathfield property; direct image of original record identified

Deeds of Priors, Heathfield House Estate, 1733–1902; catalogue description records manorial quitrent in 1751 and 1764

Scanned copy of John Ridgway map of Heathfield House estate, 1707

Watsons of Heathfield: valuations and sale particulars, 1873–1976 in the current The Keep fonds catalogue; older TNA 2005 accession listing described c.1870–1990

Newbery family of Heathfield: papers of Francis Newbery, 18th–19th century

Settlements, wills and allied documents in the Sackville/De La Warr family archive

Abstracts of title and schedules of deeds

Schedule of deeds relating to De La Warr estates in Sussex, Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire and London, 1836–1892

Wills in Sackville/De La Warr archive

Miscellaneous title deeds and associated papers, c.1300–1880

Heathfield deeds in the migrated Sackville/Dorset estate archive

Sackville family, Earls De La Warr: additional records c.1826–2012

Christopher and Agata Repetsky — Heathfield lordship conveyance dated 3 Feb 2025

1717 schedule of title deeds/documents arranged in the Knole Muniment Room; later annotations record removals and, around the 1829 partition, many deeds handed to Lord De La Warr.

Schedule compiled in 1808 for the more recent deeds separated for legal and administrative purposes.

Strutt & Parker: additional sales and purchase books, 19th–20th century

States that in 1561 a forced exchange caused the Diocese of Chichester to lose eight ancient episcopal manors, including Heathfield.

Thomas Lord Buckhurst to John Cobham; settlement of manors and lands in Cowding, Bexhill and Heathfield on Henry Sackville's marriage to Alice Colson.

Settled Knole, Seal and Kemsing on the Earl of Dorset and charged Bexhill, Cowding and other Sussex lands with £130 annual rentcharge.

Three separate historical publications describe the Earls of Ashburnham, Chichester and De La Warr as lords of the manor at Heathfield.

Sackville family, Earls De La Warr: additional correspondence 1815–2006.

ACC 10939: household/tradesmen/labour/corn accounts 1813–1930. ACC 11018: additional De La Warr records deposited in 2011; scope not exposed in the annual report.

Marriage settlement of Lionel Charles Cranfield Sackville, Viscount Cantelupe, with Dorothy Heseltine, 1890, and associated papers.

ACC 12091: De La Warr of Buckhurst Park papers 2014–2015 (additional). ACC 12495: De La Warr of Buckhurst, Withyham, papers 2015 (additional).

Portman archive parent catalogue groups both items under 'Herstmonceux, Heathfield, etc'. A reproduced catalogue entry gives SAS-PN/735 as a 12 Dec 1585 bargain and sale including Beckington, Nettlesworth and Mylkeherst in Heathfield/Warbleton.

Academic study states Pelhams held Crowhurst, Burwash and Bivelham and claimed jurisdiction over Hastings Rape waste extending into Warbleton and Heathfield; also states Heathfield became a separate manor after the 1561 removal from Chichester.

Bishop of Chichester's franchise coroner held an inquest at Heathfield in 1502, described as part of Bishopstone hundred.

Exceptionally complete Ashburnham estate archive; manorial records include strong runs for Burwash, Burghurst in Burwash, Cowden, Dallington and Netherfield.

Composite rentals for Ashburnham, Broomham, Broomham Parkgate, Allfrays, Burwash, Burghurst, Cowden, Dallington, Hasleden, Hastings, Ittington, Netherfield, Rockland and Wartling, 1860 and c.1906–21.

Published estate reconstruction gives Ashburnham Estate holdings in Heathfield of 69 acres, about 1% of the parish, in the 1910 valuation context.

Burwash: Earls of Chichester and Ashburnham are lords. Warbleton: Earls of Ashburnham and Chichester plus Smith's charity trustees are lords.

Authoritative current registered Heathfield Park geometry (MULTIPOLYGON), representative point and Grade II registration.

1841–42 Heathfield tithe map and apportionment.

Fuller cropbook plan 1781–90 and William Figg map of Heathfield estate 1819.

1595 Heathfield and Burwash Downs common-boundary survey.

12 Jul 1561 grant/exchange entry: Crown took Sidlesham, Selsey, Drungewick, Preston, Bishopstone, Heathfield, Bexhill and Ticehurst from the Chichester temporalities; 13 Dec 1560 survey commission and 22 Dec return recited; Heathfield valued £6 17s. 8d.

15 Feb 1565 grant to Richard and Winifred Sackville: Manor of Wilmington and its appurtenances in places including Bishopstone and Hethefelde, plus other former Chichester Dean/Chapter property.

31 Dec 1571 licence of alienation to Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, of Lullington/Milton manors and lands in many Sussex places including Bishopstone; Heathfield not named.

Manorial Documents Committee returns containing lists of manors and details of ownership of title, compiled from Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Copyhold Act files and Inland Revenue information, mainly in the 1920s.

Index includes registered manors, meaning registered lordship titles. Official search results for an administrative area reveal title numbers and type of registration.

William Barlow 1559–1568; Richard Curteys 1570–1582; Thomas Bickley 1586–1596.

Heathfield Manor rentals and court books — later block within the official Heathfield ADA series.

CHR/13/12 (Trinity 1755) is transcribed as a final concord between Thomas Heaton and Thomas Francis, gent., and Lewis Watson, esq., and Grace his wife: quarter interests in numerous specifically named manors including Burwash, Burghurst, Bivelham, Cowden and Dallington, plus 1700a land, 640a meadow, 250a pasture, 2240a wood and 260a furze/heath in a long parish list expressly including Heathfield. SAS/RF/9/118–124 and SAS/FB/116 provide the later Pelham/Ashburnham transfer context.

Administrative history explains private jurisdictions as originally hundredal/tenurial and later sometimes treated as parish-wide; includes Bishop of Chichester coroner at Heathfield in 1502 as part of Bishopstone hundred.

Additional abstract of title of Henry Watson and George Watson, containing a May 1716–Dec 1767 schedule dividing part of Henry Pelham's Sussex estate. Lot 2 names the manors of Burwash and Burghurst and property in Warbleton, Dallington and Brightling.

Heathfield Park is described as the seat of Sir Charles William Blunt and as occupied by Frederick Henry Scott; Scott is also listed at Heathfield Park, and Edmund Brand is listed as land steward to Sir Charles Blunt.

Sir Charles William Blunt and Frederick Henry Scott are both listed in the Hailsham petty-sessional division with Heathfield Park associations.

The official hosted analysis records Pelham ownership to 1767 and Lord Ashburnham purchase in 1767 for specific Brightling property; it identifies SAS/RF/9/118–124 title deeds and SAS/FB/116 Pelham survey (1761) as underlying sources.

The 1559 Act of Exchange enabling episcopal-land exchanges; Felicity Heal identifies the original act by this exact archival reference.

1610 licence to impark/enclose 600 acres at Heathfield, associated with Bayley Park.

Bexhill manorial material cited by an iron-industry gazetteer for a 1567 statement involving Catsfield Furnace and alleged Sackville ownership.

Burwash/Burghurst rentals and court books: Ashburnham rental 1673; Ashburnham Burwash & Burghurst rental 1850; Pelham court books 1640 and 1709–1716.

The TNA-hosted Dunkin finding aid lists 'Heathfield — PR 21.9'. It does NOT list Heathfield as a manor entry. The same finding aid separately contains a generic 'Sussex manors' heading, but no Heathfield-specific manor entry has been verified there.

John Pelham licensed to alienate the manors of Burwash, Crowhurst and Bivelham and lands in Heathfield and other parishes to trustees for Judith Pelham / Pelham male heirs.

1234 market; 1316 market and fair; published-calendar citations

Authoritative Heathfield ADA and Kent U269 reference groups; access status

Dated list of public-domain Heathfield surveys, rentals, court books, estreats, tenant list, minutes and accounts

1253–62 custumal/rental; 1329/30 and 1379/80 Heathfield rentals; manuscript references

Corroborates 1253–62 rental and its Heathfield urban/tenant context

Published transcription/edition route for medieval episcopal custumal material

Digital route to 1316 charter calendar

Identifies BL Maps MT.6.1 (13), dated 1595; says Henry Allen of Tonbridge drew the Heathfield/Burwash Downs map for Sir Thomas Pelham, who had recently acquired ownership of the land.

Maps, archival items, park extent/history references

Explains MDR scope/access and that records are listed chronologically with references/repositories

How to obtain copies of Kent-held records

How to search/request BL archive material

35-charter/deed block including Heathfield, 1216–1627

E 40/4157 and E 40/4163 published descriptions

1328 Heathfield property final concord + AALT image route

1406 Sapperton/Heathfield tenure and value

1416 Sapperton/Heathfield acreage and tenure

1337 Lewes Priory Heathfield/Horeapeltre charter transcription

Heathfield land tax, tithe, rates and 1911 valuation references

Parish green and related parish series

Page-image route to SRS vol.39

Horeappeltre Common and Heathfield place-name publications/access locations

Heathfield ironworks/site studies and downloadable PDFs

1832 James Ashdown will and Sapperton copyhold reference

Historic Heathfield forms and Horeappeltre contextual references

Engraved Vale of Heathfield and descriptive text

Official statement that school was built on former waste of Manor of Heathfield; ESC 289/3/1 image

VG.6 Village Green, Cade Street, Heathfield; direct decision PDF route

1785 Grimm Bailey Park views and BL shelfmarks; other Heathfield pictures

1904 Heathfield chapter and park description

Market, parish acreage and ambiguous plural lordship statement

Modern study drawing on medieval Heathfield Down/Horeapeltre evidence

Full reported Chancery judgment on Manor of Heathfield copyhold custom, 1763 surrender and lord's rent

Full transcript and exact ESRO reference PBT 1/1/76/200

Full Thomas Nailard will transcript, PDF pp.238–240

C 78/123 no.8, 200 acres called Mylkeherst in Heathfield

14 Aug 1873 Manor of Heathfield court of Reginald Windsor, Earl De La Warr

SAS/DD 775A Hale Hill Farm conveyance abstract and exact ESRO reference

Scholarly context and primary-source trail for the 1559 Act of Exchange

1376 Sapperton-in-Heathfield dower, park, rent and knight-service tenure

Official catalogue for Bishopstone manorial roll sampled for Heathfield outlier

Official catalogue for Bishopstone manorial roll sampled for Heathfield outlier

Official catalogue plus scholarly Heathfield court-entry linkage

66-item Bishopstone roll subseries, 1371–1680 catalogue range

Direct original-record image URL for 1328 Feet of Fines item including Heathfield

Scanned 1807 Record Commission edition of the 1341 Nonae returns

Alternative scanned PDF/page-image route

Buckhurst Terrier surveyor/owner context, c.17 manors, 40 maps, library refs and publication history

Online indexed presentation lists Heathfield among places covered by SRS 39

Older accession listing: ACC 9131 E Watson & Sons of Heathfield, valuations/sales particulars c.1870–1990. Current The Keep WAT catalogue instead dates the fonds 1873–1976; both descriptions are retained as a documented catalogue-range discrepancy.

Newbery family of Heathfield, Francis Newbery papers, 18th–19th c, accession 9781

Heathfield House estate scanned map by John Ridgway, 1707, accession 9619; Sackville additional papers accession 9618

Reproduces ESRO catalogue description of AMS 5624/1 Priors with 1751/1764 manorial quitrents

1825 split: Buckhurst and Sussex estates to Elizabeth Sackville; title/estate divergence after 1815

States Arabella's will divided the Sackville estates; Knole line context

DLW title/will/settlement series; 19th-century estate division; Heathfield ADA/U269 refs; 1960 deposit

DLW 391 schedule of deeds, 1836–1892

Family statement that Elizabeth left Buckhurst to elder sons and Knole to younger sons

1873 estate/peerage split; Mortimer successful as to Sackville estates but not Buckhurst barony

Succession dates of 7th–11th Earls De La Warr

Reginald 7th Earl inherited Dorset-era Sussex property rights in 1873; useful parallel estate evidence

Reports William Herbrand Sackville, 10th Earl, as last Sackville holder and 2024/25 auction acquisition by Repetsky

Official notice of 3 Feb 2025 conveyance to Christopher and Agata Repetsky

Heathfield Lot 6; catalogue marks Heathfield sold, gives £8,500 asking price, and states the Sackvilles held it until the very end of the 20th century when the family of the then-current owners purchased it.

Official description of 1825 inheritance, 1828 estate partition, E50/E51 title-deed schedules, c.1829 handover of many deeds to Lord De La Warr, and the old-press-mark cross-reference system.

Current fonds title, ESRO reference WAT, date 1873–1976, and description 'Valuations and sale particulars'.

Sackville family, Earls De La Warr: additional records c.1826–2012, accession ACC 11382.

Records the 1987 decision by the 10th Earl to sell Ashdown Forest and the November 1988 completion transferring the freehold and Lordship of the Manor of Duddleswell after his death.

Reports the Sackville family's manor of Brighton-Michelham was auctioned in July 1988.

Strutt & Parker, estate agents and surveyors, Salisbury: additional sales and purchase books, 19th–20th century, accession 9824.

Preserves/indexes historical manorial-title auction catalogues, including a Strutt & Parker May 1997 sale of 33 lordships and 3 baronies and an undated late-1990s private-treaty list.

Heathfield historic character assessment; states forced 1561 exchange removed Heathfield from Chichester episcopal estate; cites Foster SAC 123 (1985), p.190.

Official landing page for Sussex Extensive Urban Survey reports, including Heathfield.

Describes counterpart deed at Knole dated 23 May 1592 settling Cowding, Bexhill and Heathfield by Thomas Lord Buckhurst.

Transcription identifies Earls of Ashburnham, Chichester and De La Warr as lords of the manor.

1870–72 Imperial Gazetteer description repeats plural Ashburnham/Chichester/De La Warr manor ownership wording.

ACC 9403: Sackville family, Earls De La Warr additional correspondence 1815–2006.

ACC 10939: De La Warr household/tradesmen/labour/corn accounts 1813–1930.

Lists De La Warr additional records accession 11018 and accounts accession 10939.

Lists ACC 11382, ACC 11603 1890 Cantelupe marriage settlement, and ACC 11637 1561 Sir Richard Sackville payment warrant.

ACC 12091: De La Warr of Buckhurst Park additional papers 2014–2015.

ACC 12495: De La Warr of Buckhurst, Withyham, additional papers 2015.

Index/archive of 45 historical manorial-title catalogues covering 865 titles; used for negative search of earlier Heathfield listings.

Indexed academic text states Pelhams claimed jurisdiction over Hastings Rape waste including Warbleton and Heathfield; says Heathfield became a separate manor after the 1561 removal from Chichester.

Official parent catalogue confirms SAS-PN/735-736 are Herstmonceux/Heathfield material and documents complex custody/cataloguing history.

Reproduces detailed SAS-PN/735 description: 12 Dec 1585 Anthony Staple to Thomas Pelham and James Thetcher; Heathfield/Warbleton property including Beckington, Nettlesworth and Mylkeherst.

Official archive history says the Bishop of Chichester's coroner held an inquest at Heathfield in 1502 as part of Bishopstone hundred.

Official fonds description; twenty manors, with strong runs for Burwash, Burghurst, Cowden, Dallington and Netherfield; property schedules/index identified.

Composite Ashburnham-estate manorial rentals, including Burwash/Burghurst and other eastern Sussex manors, 1860 and c.1906–21.

Table based on ESRO valuation books and TNA field books gives Ashburnham Estate 69 acres in Heathfield parish, about 1%, in the 1910 Finance Act context.

States Earls of Chichester and Ashburnham are lords of the manor.

States Earls of Ashburnham and Chichester and trustees of Smith's charity are lords of the manor.

Authoritative Historic England-derived park-and-garden entity; exposes the current registered Heathfield Park MULTIPOLYGON and representative point.

Documents entity GeoJSON/JSON API and WGS84 geometry fields; route for exporting authoritative park geometry.

Geotagged modern representative point for historic Old Heathfield core: TQ5985 2025 / 50.95951, 0.27476.

Geotagged representative Sapperton point: TQ593 192 / 50.95065, 0.26763.

Official location control for North Down, Newick Lane: TQ59132 21854.

Secondary account citing Roy Pryce / ESRO SAS RF 3/95: Bayley Park sale in 1721 reported at 227 acres with reserved furnace-water rights.

Bibliographic details for the full 1595-map reconstruction: authors, 2018 publication, ISBNs, 251 pages

Direct 12 Jul 1561 Crown acquisition of Manor of Heathfield; survey and £6 17s. 8d. valuation; maps to C 66/964

15 Feb 1565 no.1122 grant to Richard/Winifred Sackville including Wilmington appurtenances in Hethefelde; maps to C 66/1011

14 Dec 1823 baptism indexed as Thomas Naylor Akhurst; supplies Naylor/Akhurst spelling controls for the TDE16 parcel search

Confirms online/digital routes for CPR Elizabeth I vol. IV 1566–69 and the continuing published calendar sequence through vols VI–IX (1572–82), useful for the finite Crown-to-Sackville search.

Explains C 66 Patent Rolls and confirms that published/indexed calendars are the principal finding aid; specifically identifies the 34 Elizabeth I (1591–92) calendar C66/1379–1394.

Catalogues the List & Index Society continuation volumes for late Elizabethan Patent Rolls, including 25–28 Elizabeth and 34 Elizabeth, providing a concrete finding-aid route through the 1582–1592 title window.

Official paid research/transcription route for unresolved item-level U269 references and title-deed summaries.

Direct downloadable research/copy request form; lists digital-copy and research options.

Documents the OpenSearch metadata API which may expose item-level catalogue metadata; live query was inaccessible from current execution environment.

Explains HMC 5/6–8 owner/title returns and their incomplete nature; creation of MDR.

States MDR is not a title register; identifies HMC 5/6–8 as 1920s lists of manors/owners and HM Land Registry index route.

Defines MDR scope; title deeds/evidences of title lie outside MDR; reiterates HMC 5/6–8 title-owner returns.

Official digital/paper copy-order route once an orderable TNA record reference has been identified.

Official procedure for searching the index of registered relating franchises and manors; registered manor entries are lordship titles.

Explains separation of lordship title, manorial land and rights; voluntary pre-2003 registration and index of registered lordship titles.

Official application page for search of the index of relating franchises and manors.

Direct downloadable two-page SIF form for official manor/franchise index search.

Current fee schedule; SIF official search of index of relating franchises and manors listed by administrative area.

Official route to TNA paid search or independent researchers when an undigitised source such as HMC 5/6–8 must be searched on the user's behalf.

Official firm contact route: 83 Newhall Street, Birmingham B3 1LH; telephone 0121 227 1234; info@newhallsolicitors.com.

Confirms Michael Baxendale as Head of Dispute Resolution and official firm contact details.

Official Gazette material identifies Michael Richard Joseph Baxendale at Newhall Solicitors LLP with direct professional email MBaxendale@NewhallSolicitors.com.

Bibliographic record for List & Index Society vol.141, 1977, 273 pp; index to grantees for 23–29 Elizabeth I.

Identifies vol.167 index to grantees for 30–36 Elizabeth I and annual Patent Roll calendars with exact C66 ranges.

Confirms Elizabeth I Patent Roll calendars and List & Index Society grantee-index sequence for 1580–1594.

Auxiliary spatial controls: Heathfield maps c.1724, c.1795 and c.1825; not manor-boundary evidence by themselves.

Authoritative chronology: William Barlow 1559–1568; Richard Curteys 1570–1582; Thomas Bickley from 1586. Demonstrates that 1586 ended, rather than began, the 1582–86 vacancy.

Transcribes ESRO CHR/13/12 (Trinity 1755): quarter of named manors including Burwash/Burghurst/Bivelham/Cowden/Dallington plus 1700a land, 640a meadow, 250a pasture, 2240a wood, 260a furze/heath across a parish list expressly including Heathfield. Heathfield is NOT among the quarter-manor names.

Official archive-hosted analysis: Pelham estate / Rape-of-Hastings context, Henry Pelham sale and Ashburnham purchase in 1767 for specified property; identifies SAS/RF/9/118–124 and SAS/FB/116.

Local institutional history states that in 1890 'Francis Scott, the new owner of Heathfield Park' promoted the Society. This is an ownership clue, not primary conveyancing proof, and conflicts with contemporary Frederick H. Scott residence evidence.

Bibliographic access: Roy Pryce, Heathfield Park: A private estate and a Wealden town (1996), 204 pp., available at The Keep as LIB/503837 and other libraries.

Secondary reconstruction places a Scott purchaser between the Blunt family and William Cleverly Alexander (1890–1895); useful lead only, with the purchaser's exact first name requiring primary confirmation.

Confirms exact Heathfield rental folios and explains the critical comparability issue: 1329/30 omits cottage/messuage-only tenants while 1379/80 is more comprehensive.

Target 13: states Forest Ridge disputes probably originated in Ashburnham's 1767 purchase of the Manor of Burwash from the Chichesters/Pelhams, citing Lucas p.10. Land extent: reports 1842 Heathfield ownership concentration (>1,000a Blunt; 800a Fuller; remainder among >130 owners) and cites TDE16.

Transcribes additional abstract of title with 1716–1767 Pelham estate-division schedule; Lot 2 includes manors Burwash and Burghurst plus Dallington/Brightling/Warbleton interests.

Direct directory proof that Heathfield Park was described as Sir Charles William Blunt's seat but occupied by Frederick Henry Scott; also lists Blunt's land steward.

Lists Sir Charles William Blunt and Frederick Henry Scott with Heathfield Park associations around the 1890 sale period.

Official hosted archival analysis documenting Pelham→Ashburnham 1767 property transfer and identifying SAS/RF/9/118–124 title deeds and SAS/FB/116 Pelham survey.

Indexes SAG433, SAG435, SAG436, SAG437 and related maps/court/rental sources for Burwash/Burghurst.

TNA finding aid lists 'Heathfield — PR 21.9'.

Official local archive history states Bexhill granted to Thomas Sackville in 1570; controlled parallel for U269/M20 conflict.

Secondary citation to ACC 2631 / U269 M20 for a 1567 Bexhill/Sackville statement; requires original inspection.

1899 Heathfield Park occupation by William Cleverly Alexander; plural-lord wording.

1899 Frederick Henry Scott residence at Brightling Park.

Official catalogue identifies Grace Watson as daughter of Henry Pelham and wife of Lewis Watson from 1752; supports the Pelham provenance of the parties in CHR/13/12.

Transcribes RG 11/1044 Heathfield ED 13 and places Frederick H. Scott, barrister, at Heathfield Park on 3 Apr 1881.

Contemporary 1893 entry for Sir William Blunt lists Heathfield Park among his seats, a chronology conflict to test against the reported 1890 lot sale.

Direct official-calendar evidence: Pelham manors Burwash/Crowhurst/Bivelham plus separate lands in Heathfield and neighbouring parishes.

Digitised directory page headed List of the Principal Seats in Sussex names Heathfield Park with Frederick Henry Scott esq.

Heathfield; Ep VI/1/5; Ep VI/1/3; survey; rental

Heathfield + ADA/50, 56, 58, 59, 61-63, 78, 143-149

Heathfield + U269/M64-5; M68/1; T108-9; E189; C57; A178

Heathfield; court roll; Maps MT.6.1 (13)

Manor: Heathfield; parish: Heathfield; Sussex; document type/date