Deeds of Bunkers Hill Farm, Burwash Common, Burwash

1 Deeds of a tenement and 70a called Goodsoal, including land called Withers and Birchett, 1352-1728

2 Deeds of a messuage and 3/4a near Swingate in Burwash [Bunkers Hill House], 1836-1865

3 Notes on later deeds of the Bunkers Hill Estate, [1899-1971]

Bunkers Hill Farm was assembled between 1957 and 1971, the first conveyance itself a purchase of three titles acquired by the vendor between 1944 and 1946. Only deeds regarded by the depositor as being of historic interest are present: those of Goodsoal Farm (AMS 6779/1) covering 1352-1728 and the deeds of Bunkers Hill Farmhouse, formerly a Burwash Parish poorhouse (AMS 6779/2) dating from 1836-1865).

The later deeds of the property, which clarify the dates and manner of acquisition of the different parts of the farm and of the deeds listed as AMS 6779/1-2, have not been deposited and their present whereabouts are unknown.

They were examined in the 1980s by Derrick Steward of Highclere, Burwash Common, whose notes have been re-arranged and listed as AMS 6779/3.

Deposited 19 May 2004 (ACC 8965)

On 24 August 1989 photocopies of the documents listed as AMS 6779/1 were acquired (as ACC 5316) from Derrick Steward of Highclere, Burwash Common, who also listed these documents and later material which was then in the hands of the depositor. For his notes on the later deeds, see AMS 6779/3.

photocopies of these documents are held as ACC 5316