Catalogue description Records of B W Howe, agent to the Sheffield Park estate and surveyor to the Ouse Catchment Board and the Newhaven and Ouse Navigation

This record is held by East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)

Details of AMS5646
Reference: AMS5646
Title: Records of B W Howe, agent to the Sheffield Park estate and surveyor to the Ouse Catchment Board and the Newhaven and Ouse Navigation
Description:

The donor was agent to the Sheffield Park estate from 1 August 1948 until 31 March 1952. During that period he lived at the agent's house at Home Farm Fletching, where the estate office was also situated. Two years later he returned to Home Farm as tenant of the Sackville-West Knole estate which had bought the property, with other parts of the Sheffield estate, in 1952; with this activity are to be associated the documents listed as AMS5646/1/1-12

 

He also served as surveyor to the Ouse Catchment Board and the Newhaven and Ouse Navigation, and it is from that employment that the records listed as AMS5646/2/1-7 derive

 

As a local resident, the donor took part in the production of the Fletching Millennium Map, listed as AMS5646/3/1

Related material:

For the minute books of the Upper Ouse Navigation Company, 1790-1859, from the same source, see AMS674-676

Held by: East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Immediate source of acquisition:

Documents given 8 February 1978 (ACC 2192), 21 April 1995 (ACC 6620), 24 October 2002 (ACC 8671)

Have you found an error with this catalogue description?

Help with your research