Catalogue description ESTATE RECORDS

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS The estate as managed by Nicholas Gilbert of Eastbourne, 1706-1774

GIL/3/1 Tithe 1734-1775

GIL/3/2 Sale of land from Nicholas Gilbert to Stephen Lushington 1781

GIL/3/3 Re-alignment of road at Compton Place 1781-1782

GIL/3/4 Tithe terrier 1788

GIL/3/5 Schedule of deeds c1790

GIL/3/6 Maps c1790-1795

The estate as managed by Charles Gilbert

GIL/3/7 "Purchase of the Manor House, Eastbourne" 1787-1793

GIL/3/8 Waste at Seaside 1797-1813

GIL/3/9 Estate accounts 1797-1816

GIL/3/10 Terrier of Gilbert property [c1797]

GIL/3/11 Map of Blueberries in Pevensey

GIL/3/12 Tithe terriers post 1799-1807

GIL/3/13 Purchase of woodland at Hailsham 1799

GIL/3/14 Waterscots 1784-1806

GIL/3/15 "Purchases of Netherbeds and Upper Dunwick, Eastdean" 1812-1814

The estate as managed by Davies Gilbert, 1767-1839

GIL/3/16 Accounts 1811-1837

GIL/3/17 Map of the parish of Eastbourne 1816, 1884

GIL/3/18 Schedule of deeds post 1817

GIL/3/19 Davies Gilbert label: Number 5 Valuations of Estates and Memoirs on Property and on Mines. Also matters relating to Boundaries [?1783]-1821

GIL/3/20 Barns at Wellingham and Broyle Place, Ringmer 1822-1824

GIL/3/21 Purchase of Thomas's share of the Manor of Eastbourne Gildredge 1814-1830

GIL/3/22 Map annotated 'Marshlands Pevensey' post 1824

GIL/3/23 Eastbourne parsonage 1834-1835

GIL/3/24 Tithe terriers [?1837]

GIL/3/25 Papers relating to exchange between the Earl of Burlington and Davies Gilbert 1838-1844

The estate as managed by Mary Ann Gilbert, 1776-1845

GIL/3/26 Purchase of land in Hockington Laine, Willingdon 1839

GIL/3/27 Building work 1840

GIL/3/28 Eastbourne tithe apportionment 1841

GIL/3/29 Miscellaneous maps c1790-post 1944

The estate as managed by F H Gell

GIL/3/30 Correspondence pertaining to Birling Coastguard Cottages 1839-1858

GIL/3/31 Property at Sea Side 1841-1862

GIL/3/32 Negotiations with railway companies 1846-1881

GIL/3/33 Taking of gravel from the beach ?1847

GIL/3/34 Eastbourne Nether Inn properties held by the late John Hoper as trustee 1847-1848

GIL/3/35 Proposed conveyance of land for Eastbourne vicarage 1850

GIL/3/36 Half Hide 1853-1854

GIL/3/37 Eastbourne National School 1853-1854

GIL/3/38 Eastbourne Waterworks 1854-1863

GIL/3/39 The Grey estate 1855-1870s

GIL/3/40 "Telegraphic dispatches by London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Co to Messrs Gell, solicitors" 1859

GIL/3/41 Piece of land on the waste in Whaits Lane by the road leading to the mill 1860-1862

GIL/3/42 Sale of messuage in South Street 1861-1863

GIL/3/43 Phoenix Assurance Company Insurance Policies 1862-1899

GIL/3/44 Legal papers in the case Gilbert v Duke of Devonshire pertaining to encroachment on the Crumbles, Eastbourne" 1862-1871

GIL/3/45 Papers regarding the bankruptcy of William Parsons, licensee of the Gilbert Arms 1847-1866

GIL/3/46 Management of Gildredge Farm, Eastbourne 1868

GIL/3/47 Footpath Diversions 1870-1876

GIL/3/49 Negotiations with Telegraph Company 1870-1872

GIL/3/50 Sale Particulars 1874-1902

GIL/3/51 Draft agreements 1875-1901

GIL/3/52 Papers regarding the enfranchisement of cottages at Upwick held of Eastbourne Parker 1866-1910

GIL/3/53 "Letting of Gildredge Farm, Eastbourne" 1868-1879

GIL/3/54 Purchase of Eastbourne Rectory 1876-1877

GIL/3/55 Copy and draft leases 1877-1880

GIL/3/56 Enfranchisements of parts of Wannock Estate 1877-1881

GIL/3/57 Wannock Farm 1878-1889

GIL/3/58 Leasing of West Cottages, Eastbourne 1878

GIL/3/59 Eastbourne Improvement Act 1879-1881

The estate as managed Carew Davies Gilbert 1879-1911

GIL/3/60 The Purchase of Gildridge Park (Elphick's Field) 1879-1911

GIL/3/61 Enfranchisement of Barbers held of Peakdean Manor 1879-1880

GIL/3/62 The taking of shingle and sand from foreshore at Crumbles 1853-1894

GIL/3/63 Bills of costs 1880

GIL/3/64 Poor rate 1881-1888

GIL/3/65 London and Eastbourne Railway Bill in Parliament - Session 1883 1883

GIL/3/66 Addition to Eastdean churchyard 1882-1883

GIL/3/67 Exchange at Upwick 1882-1884

GIL/3/68 Transfer of licence of Brewers Arms, Eastbourne 1884

GIL/3/69 Taxes and rates 1885-1888

GIL/3/70 The Eastbourne Improvement Bill 1885 1885

GIL/3/71 Sale of Marine Tavern, Eastbourne 1886-1887

GIL/3/72 Sale of Dartington House 1879-1886

GIL/3/73 Commissioners of Sewers 1886-1909

GIL/3/74 Conveyance of two plots of land on Upperton estate 1886

GIL/3/75 Road to be called 'Beachy Head Drive' 1887

GIL/3/76 Convalescent Home and Princess Alice Hospital 1904

GIL/3/77 Seaford Bay Estate Company 1888-1904

GIL/3/78 Clifton House Estate 1888

GIL/3/79 New shop leases 1892

GIL/3/80 Birling Farm in Eastdean (and Pevensey) 1893-1914

GIL/3/81 Enfranchisement of certain copyhold premises of Netherin Manor 1893-1899

GIL/3/82 137 (plot 3) Seaside, Eastbourne 1894-1914

GIL/3/83 Nine messuages in Church Street and Vicarage Lane, Eastbourne 1894

GIL/3/84 Unidentified tenements in Hartfield Pashley Manor and Birling Manor 1875-1884

GIL/3/85 Rights of way at 53 South Street and West Street, Eastbourne 1895-1917

GIL/3/86 Land near Whitley Road bridge 1896-1899

GIL/3/87 Change of use of premises in Terminus Road and Grove Road and purchase of stables behind South Street 1898-1899

GIL/3/88 Light Railways Act 1896: Robertsbridge and Pevensey Light Railway 1899-1906

GIL/3/89 1922Ice factory on plot 129 Beach Road, Eastbourne

GIL/3/90 1899-1901Plots 5-6 St Aubyn Road, Eastbourne

GIL/3/91 Draft abstracts of title of Carew Davies Gilbert 1899

GIL/3/92 Letting of Upperton on building lease c1900

GIL/3/93 Tenancy of bakehouse and cottage at Eastdean 1900-1906

GIL/3/94 Low level drive from Eastbourne to Willingdon 1900

GIL/3/95 Newhouse Farm, Eastdean 1900-1906

GIL/3/96 Conveyance of land at Lamb Corner, High Street for highway improvements 1900-1912

GIL/3/97 Easement for drain at Upwick 1900-1901

GIL/3/98 Piece of beach on the Crumbles, Eastbourne 1901

GIL/3/99 Chalk pit at Jevington 1901-1915

GIL/3/100 216-220 Birling Street 1901

GIL/3/101 Plot 195 of land in Green Street 1901

GIL/3/102 Eastdean glebe 1901

GIL/3/103 Parsonage site at Eastdean "1902, 1920"

GIL/3/104 Supply of water at Eastdean and Birling 1903-1907

GIL/3/105 Right of access to roadway adjoining Wannock Strawberry Gardens 1907

GIL/3/106 Oakleigh, Eastbourne 1907

GIL/3/107 Sale of Stafford House 1907-1908

GIL/3/108 Erection of a notice board at Birling Gap 1907

GIL/3/109 General retainer by Carew Davies Gilbert to Messrs Drake and Lee to act as solicitors 1908

GIL/3/110 Copy altered tithe apportionment 1909

GIL/3/111 Lease of Filching Manor, the Dean and Dean Wood at Jevington 1911-1913

GIL/3/112 Watch hut or lookout house at Birling Gap 1912-1914

GIL/3/113 Land for a sanatorium for consumptives 1913

GIL/3/114 19 High Street, Eastbourne 1913-1914

GIL/3/115 Land for recreation ground adjoining proposed new sanatorium 1913

GIL/3/116 Freehold hereditaments at the Crumbles 1815-1913

GIL/3/117 Land at Birling Gap 1913-1914

GIL/3/118 Lease of Eastdean Rectory 1914-1915

GIL/3/119 Gilbert lands mortgaged in Eastbourne c1916

GIL/3/120 Birling Gap Hotel 1916-1917

GIL/3/121 Belle Tout Lighthouse, Eastdean 1917

GIL/3/122 Wannock estate 1918-1919

GIL/3/123 Cottage site at Eastdean 1920

GIL/3/124 Birling Farm 1920-1922

GIL/3/125 Sale of land at the Crumbles 1921

GIL/3/126 Sale of plot of land at Birling Gap 1922

GIL/3/127 Sale of Seaside Recreation Ground 1922

GIL/3/128 Sale of the Eastbourne Manor House and grounds 1922

GIL/3/129 Sale of cottages at Eastdean opposite the Tiger known as Fowlers Cottages 1922

GIL/3/130 Properties in and adjoining Terminus Road 1922

GIL/3/131 Addition to Eastdean churchyard 1923

GIL/3/132 Telegraphic testing house at Birling Gap 1923

GIL/3/133 Carpenter's shop at Eastdean 1923

GIL/3/134 Newhouse Farm in Eastdean and its marshes in Herstmonceux and Bexhill 1924

GIL/3/135 Cottage in the Lower Street at Eastdean 1924

GIL/3/136 Sale of area south east of Eastdean village and including Eastbourne Golf course 1927

GIL/3/137 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13 Parsonage Road, Eastbourne 1936

GIL/3/138"Old Gore Barn, Eastdean 1938-1959

GIL/3/139 Part of Gildredge Wood (2a), Hailsham 1941-1942

GIL/3/140 Conveyances for road widening at Eastdean 1946-1951

The estate as managed by Benjamin King

GIL/3/141-145 Miscellanous 1846-1861

The estate as managed by Nicholas Whitley

GIL/3/146 Steward's map collection 1859-1927

GIL/3/147 Re-siting of station and building of new roads 1859-1864

GIL/3/148 Eastbourne Netherin properties to be enfranchised 1861-1876

GIL/3/149 Agent's notes and reports 1862-1878

GIL/3/150 Report on meeting at Geological Society 1862

GIL/3/151 Survey of the estate of Mrs C[arew] Gilbert compiled by [?Nicholas Whitley] [1790s-1830s]

GIL/3/152 Valuation of farms and lands belonging to Mrs D Gilbert 1905

GIL/3/153 Development of Half Hide 1867-1868

GIL/3/154 Development of Hartfield and Upperton areas 1870-1885

GIL/3/155 Development of Sea Side area c1870-c1885

GIL/3/156 Estate plans drawn by N Whitley 1870-1874

GIL/3/157 Marked up sets of Ordnance Survey Maps 1873-1875

GIL/3/158 Main Drains and Sewage Gas 1884

GIL/3/159 Method of letting building plots 1886

GIL/3/160 Other Maps 1846-1886

The estate as managed by Henry Michell Whitley

GIL/3/161 'History of the Manor of Eastbourne' 1883

GIL/3/162 Abortive Eastbourne, Seaford and Newhaven Railway Bill in Parliament - Session 1886 1885-1892

GIL/3/163 Congestion of traffic in the Upperton Road by the railway station 1886-1887

GIL/3/164 Reports of town council meetings "1886, 1896"

GIL/3/165 Eastbourne Building Estate No 2 cash accounts 1886-1902

GIL/3/166 Street paving and channelling 1886-1890

GIL/3/167 Eastbourne Waterworks 1875-1906

GIL/3/168 Erection of five ventilating columns on the Hartfield estate 1891

GIL/3/169 Correspondence concerning various properties 1895-1896

GIL/3/170 Investigation of the management and travelling expenses of Henry Michell Whitley and his assistant H Bodilly 1895-1905

GIL/3/171 Abortive Cuckmere Valley Light Railway 1897-1898

GIL/3/172 Damage done to the Gilbert estates 1897

GIL/3/173 Enlargement of Eaastbourne Station 1902

GIL/3/174 Development of Birling 1904-1905

GIL/3/175 Trevella, The Goffs, Eastbourne

GIL/3/176 Ancient Cultivations near Hollingbury Camp 1910

GIL/3/177 Tithe payable on the Jevington estate 1911

GIL/3/178 Other Maps 1888-1906

The estate as managed by R G Hall

GIL/3/179 'General plans' 1898-1928

GIL/3/180 Finance Act 1909 - 1910 1910-1919

GIL/3/181 Roads 1912-c1936

GIL/3/182 Register of Gilbert estate documents c1902-1933

GIL/3/183 Abortive plans for development of Crowlink and Birling 1915-1967

GIL/3/184 Rating matters, boundary changes etc. 1883-1928

GIL/3/185 Eastdean Birling Road 1920-1927

GIL/3/186 "Sale of the Manor House; tithes on Folkington, Pevensey and Bexhill estates" 1922-1935

GIL/3/187 Grant of arms and change of name 1926

GIL/3/188 Development of Gildridge Underhill Estate 1927-1936

GIL/3/189 Original files of R G Hall's correspondence mainly with Williams and James, W R Gilbert and Local Authorities 1929-1958

GIL/3/190 Land for cesspool for Village Hall, Eastdean 1928

GIL/3/191 Return of parochial statistics, and benefice returns 1928-1935

GIL/3/192 New boiler at Dipperays, Eastdean 1931-1932

GIL/3/193 Land for a searchlight at Beachy Head 1939-1943

GIL/3/194 Land near the coastguard station 1939

GIL/3/195 Bardolfs Hall, Birling Manor 1939-1959

GIL/3/196 Eastdean and Birling Gap ?1960s

GIL/3/197 Licences issued to properties on the Gilbert estate 1955-1973

GIL/3/198 Notes on coast erosion at Eastdean 1956

GIL/3/199 Parking of a caravan at Little Lane, Eastdean 1960

GIL/3/200 Gildredge Farm [20th cent]

GIL/3/201 Other maps 1915-1942

Estate: General

GIL/3/202 Registers of agreements for land on Eastbourne Building Estate 1861-1884

GIL/3/203 Eastbourne Building Estate: Agreements 1861-1929

GIL/3/204 Eastbourne Building Estate: Leases 1869

GIL/3/205 Miscellaneous registers etc of building agreements and leases 1861-1906

GIL/3/206 Eastbourne Building Estate: Registers

GIL/3/207 Eastbourne Building Estate: Plans 1866-1906

GIL/3/208 Duplicate conveyances 1863 - 1984

GIL/3/209 Duplicate conveyances of Victoria Drive

GIL/3/210 Licences 1929 - 1930

GIL/3/211 Counterpart leases and assignments (not Eastbourne Building Estate). Lessor is Carew Davies Gilbert unless otherwise stated 1874-1925

GIL/3/212 Agreements to lease [for which no lease appears to have been made] 1876-1878

GIL/3/213 Register of particulars for letting Eastbourne and Eastdean estate c1905-1920

GIL/3/214 Rentals 1861-c1924

GIL/3/215 Letter Books containing copies of out-letters 1926-1964