Roman Maps of Sussex Farms



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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My thanks to all those who have helped me over the years, please take a look.

COMPREHENSIVE. Change in school structure means I must become more qualified !

FAILURE If at first....

HOOPER'S FORMULA. A way of dating a hedge and details of hedge counts. See map 2.

ACTUS. A Roman measure of length,120 pedes, see map 3

JACK MORLEY. A surveyor helps out.

RULER. A way to measure Roman units on a modern map.

OLD MAPS. Later cartographers copied Roman maps ?

HEDGES. Factors to consider about hedges

COPY! Further evidence that Figg's 19th Century maps were copies

CENTURIA TO RAPES. Roman efficiency achieved what more recent surveyors could never have.

IVAN MARGARY. His book "Roman Ways on the Weald" gives clues

NOVINGTON. Another map considered

WOOLSTONBURY. Present fields map onto Roman land grants.

LEYS. Straight lines on the maps. Ley lines in Sussex?

HURSTPIERPOINT. Ley lines North of Hurstpierpoint ?

LACHETT'S LANE. An old lane lost to developers

CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES



MAPS AND SKETCHES



MAP 1. The faint photo of the entire Danny estate.

MAP 2. 1658 map north of Hurstpierpoint and hedge counts.

MAP 3. 1826 map south of Hurstpierpoint and hedge counts.

PLATE 1. Photo and sketch of Warningore Lane and Bos Hill Road.

MAP 4. 6” map showing Burgess Hill boundary and Novington 1/25000 map

MAPS 6 and 7. Wolstonbury 1826 maps and 1939 O.S. maps

MAP 8. Danny mansion house and grounds 1828

MAP 9. Sussex leys

MAP 10. 1795 map showing Latchett Lane and place of Turnpike Road.



Trevor Davies can be contacted at trevor@romanmaps.co.uk



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