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| Link to details of Sedlescombe parish records held at the East Sussex Record Office |
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| Books, maps, etc. |
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| Family history information |
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| East Sussex Record Office Local History - links to County Council website. |
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| A2A. This is a huge (over 10 million records) database of items held in 416 record offices and other repositories. Tip: try putting variations of what you are looking for into the search facility. For example try Sedlescomb, Seddlescomb, Seddlescombe as well as the more usual for nowadays Sedlescombe. References to places or people in Sedlescombe have been found by searching for the following words: Great Saunders and Great Sanders, Brabazon Combe, Oaklands Westfield, Durhamford etc. |
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| How Sedlescombe celebrated the Silver Jubilee of King George V in 1935 |
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| Munitions Fitting and Assembly Shop, Sedlescombe |
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| Sedlescombe Service Station, a few photos |
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| Awards 1979-2009 Sedlescombe's successes |
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| Sedlescombe Village Hall 1975-2001. Ten years after the completion of Sedlescombe's new village hall, here is a chance to look back over more than a quarter of a century of looking for a new site. |
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| Hop-picking in Sedlescombe 1900-1920 |
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| Regulations for Hop-pickers in 1900 |
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| Sedlescombe Citizenship Awards since 2003 |
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| Tribute to the late Bryan Graves who died in December 2009. He had been Sedlescombe's resident policeman between 1984 and 1990. |
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| Questions about the horse trough outside The Queen's Head, Sedlescombe and the spelling of the name "Sedlescombe" - see FAQs |
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| Link to Southern Water website about the steam engines of Brede. Wikipedia link |
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| Sedlescombe Village Hall Tapestry. A visitor to the Village Hall in May 2008 writes about the tapestry |
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| Reference to Sedlescombe's parish map and Village Hall tapestry by England-in-particular |
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| Link to Wikipedia description of poet Patience Strong who had been living in Sedlescombe just before she died in 1990 |
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| Painting of Queen's Head 1904. Story of how a painting of the Queen's Head, Sedlescombe helped to cement a friendship far away in Australia. |
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| Scrapbook gallery celebrating Sedlescombe's agricultural past with a series of photos dating from 1900 (added August 2008) |
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| 1747 Window Tax in Sedlescombe. The Sussex Record Society has published a transcription, edited by Roger Davey, from documents in the East Sussex Record Office of the East Sussex Window and House Tax Assessments for the year 1747. Assessments survive for 46 parishes in the east and north of Sussex. |
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| Servants in Sedlescombe. A transcript by Pauline Raymond of names of people from the 1891 and 1901 census returns for the parish of Sedlescombe who are described as "servant" or similar. |
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| Royal British Legion 1930-1966. Transcribed from Royal British Legion Minutes by Mr Ernie Burgess, Chairman of Sedlescombe Branch of Royal British Legion, March 2006 |
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Recent history, last half of 20th century. Article by Pauline Raymond looking at the changes in Sedlescombe between 1950 and 2000. |
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| What was it like to be a boy or girl living in Sedlescombe parish in the year 1900? Text of talk given to Sedlescombe schoolchildren by Pauline Raymond in 2000 |
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| Charcoal in Sedlescombe. Short article about Sedlescombe's important charcoal industry. |
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| Sedlescombe Parish Map. Story of how Sedlescombe's parish map came to be produced in 1994. |
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| Durhamford, Stream Lane, Sedlescombe. Snippets of information and a few photos |
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| Kiplings and Sedlescombe. An article exploring the connection of Rudyard Kipling to the Village of Sedlescombe |
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| Hercules Brabazon Brabazon. A pen picture of HBB of Oaklands, Sedlescombe |
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| Recollections of the Great Storm of 1987 |
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| Hop Token Issuers - additional information to be read in conjunction with Alan Henderson's booklet "Hop Token Issuers and Their Tokens Volume Two" |
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| Formation of the Sedlescombe Rifle Club in 1908 - Extract from Parish Magazine |
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| Parish News - links to Sedlescombe Parish news-sheets |
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| Red Cross Society August 1914 - Extracts from Parish Magazine |
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| Sedlescombe War Relief Fund - Extract from Parish Magazine October 1914 |
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| Names at the Front - Extract from Parish Magazine October 1914 |
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| Extracts from Parish Council Minutes etc. relating to World War I in Sedlescombe |
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| 1914-18 Sedlescombe War Memorial |
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| Roll of Honour for first and second war produced by Chris Comber 2006 |
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| Transcript of insert in 1916 Sedlescombe Parish Magazine on The Fly |
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| May 1916 insert "Disease in War Time" |
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| Transcript of insert in 1916 Sedlescombe Parish Magazine on War Savings |
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| Fred W Cooper photo and certificates relating to World War I |
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| Outbreak of Second World War. Extract from Parish Magazine October 1939 |
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| Herbert Morrison visits bomb alley September 18th 1944. He spoke of how grateful London was for the courage of the people of bomb alley |
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| Map of where flying bombs fell in South East England. A large number of flying bombs fell in the area during the War. In addition 7,609 high explosive bombs fell on East Sussex from enemy aircraft. In Sedlescombe 18 high explosive bombs, 2 unexploded high explosive bombs and 886 Incendiary Bombs were recorded. |
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| Play entitled For inspection was presented at a concert-social at the village hall in 1944 |
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| Sedlescombe Parish Council Minutes extracts 1936-1944 |
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| John Keeling D.F.C. wins Distinguished Flying Cross for his involvement in WWII |
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| Air Raid Precautions 1939 from Parish Magazine |
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| World War II dead from Sedlescombe |
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| Hastings in WWII by Victoria Seymour |
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| Disarming an exploded V.1 Bomb. Provided by the late Mrs Pat Smith re Strawberry Hill Farm, Poppinghole Lane in June 1944. |
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| Extracts from Parish Council Minutes 1894-1956 |
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| Extracts from Parish Council Minutes 1957-1968 |
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| Extracts from Parish Council Minutes 1980-2005 |
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| Link to a Sedlescombe Parish Boundary Map of pre-1850 extracted from Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata |
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