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Inspired by the successful “Stroll Down The Street” event in summer 2010 we have created an interactive map of the village, which pulls together published information about listed and unlisted buildings in the parish.
If you are not familiar with Google Maps, please note that the arrow symbols are used to navigate north, east, south and west, + and – to zoom in and out. You can also switch between map and satellite photograph views. Click on the coloured markers to see text and images where these are available. Red markers indicate a listed building; information about these is drawn from “Listed Buildings Online” available through the Heritage Gateway at http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/ and from “Images of England” ( a photographic library of England’s listed buildings, recorded at the turn of the 21st century) at http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/QuickResults/Default.aspx?qs=dallington
We are gradually adding to the map and we hope that residents will share information about the history of their own houses. To add information please leave a message in the box at the end of this page.
Hello Does anyone know Brookland Cottage Dallington. My distant relative Ebenezer Pound lived there in 1850.
Hi Milly – this is a bit of a puzzle. There were various cottages linked to Brooklands Farm (Brooklands was renamed Carricks Brook a few years ago so you can find that on Google maps) but in the 1851 census, your ancestor Ebenezer Pound wasn’t living there but at the other side of the village at Yew Tree Cottage on the main road between Woods Corner and Battle. (Approx Postcode TN21 9LE) He was also recorded living there in 1841 age 15 with his widowed mother Caroline. By 1861 he was married and living at Woods corner. So not sure when or why he would have been at Brooklands cottage in 1850. Where did this information come from? I tried to see who was living at Brooklands in 1851 but can’t find it right now – not sure if it had a different name then. Will let you know if I find anything else
The lane was originally called Blue Kiln Lane (reference to a brick kiln that existed in the 18th century) but is now generally known as Padgham Lane after Padgham Farm – there are now several separate dwellings with this name at this location.
The farm is referred to as Padgham Farm or just Padgham at least as far back as 1794, and originally formed part of the Herrings estate which seems to have passed to the Ashburnham estate early in the 19th century. If you go to the National Archives website and search for Padgham you’ll find various references to tenancy agreements etc ( the actual documents are held at East Sussex Record office in Lewes).
It may originally have been named for a family but if so they don’t appear to have lived in the village for at least 200 years. Most Padghams in the 1841-1911 census records come from Kent or the Kent Sussex borders – though Adelaide Jane Guest born in Dallington married James Padgham in Tonbridge in 1866, the family didn’t live here. The occupants of Padgham in this period are Wilmshurst(1841), Bishopp (1851), Wrenn (1861-81) and Burgess (1891-1911).
Hope some of this is useful to you
Best wishes Pauline
Hi Pauline, I’m interested to see that you have Blue Kiln Lane as an earlier name for Padgham Lane. My father told me that the section of South Lane running from Cinder Hill Cottage to Downs Farm (and so past where my parents lived at Saltley Farm) was correctly called Blue Cow Lane which in turn was a corruption of Blue Kiln Lane. I believe he only learned this during their later years in Dallington and I don’t know the source or its accuracy.
I hope someone here will be able to help you – but it doesnt get much traffic so I will ask around locally. What kinds of information, and for which years, are you particularly interested in? If you don’t already know it, the book “Six miles from everywhere” may be helpful (see https://dallingtonhistory.wordpress.com/external-resources/ for details of how to obtain a copy)