Browse through articles about Maresfield’s history
A brief history of Maresfield
Betty Turner, 1991 Village life has never stood still. Villages have been built and re-built countless times as part of …
Woodlands Nursery
An interesting 1994 article by Barbara Abbs, published in Sussex Archaeological Collections, traces the remarkable history of Woodlands Nursery at …
Edward Wadsworth, RA
Edward Wadsworth, RA was born in Cleckheaton, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1889 and rejected a career in the family’s …
Lady Frances Shelley (1787-1873)
Born at Preston, Lancashire, in 1787, Frances Winckley was the only daughter of Thomas Winckley, a prosperous Preston attorney and …
The Deadman family at Powder Mills Cottages
About 1900 James Deadman (born 1856) from Chiddingly, who had married Rose Mary Thompson at Bodle St. Green in 1891 …
A Boys Eye View of Maresfield in the 1920s and ’30s
by Gordon Marsh. First published in 2003 by Maresfield Conservation Group. IN JULY 1928 the Marsh family — Dad, Mum, …
Miller Family
Picture circa 1935 shows the wedding breakfast to celebrate the marriage of Emily Holmes and Albert Miller.Albert Miller was one …
Mabel Weston & Mary Sheldon
Miss Mabel Kenward, later Mrs Weston, lived at South View, Budletts, which is now Budletts Restaurant. Her father and brother …
Rev A.C.D Ryder
The Reverend Algernon Charles Dudley Ryder was rector for nearly 40 years until his retirement in 1941 at the age …
Childhood Memories of my Sussex village, half a century later
Betty Turner, 1991 I arrived at Maresfield on 18th March, 1941 in an army vanette as my father was attached …
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