During The Ashdown Forest Dispute 1876-1882 commoners and land owners were interviewed by the solicitor William Raper. Their comments were recorded in a series of notebooks:
Wood, Robert. Tenant of Hendall Farm. This farm consists of 230 acres. I took it at Michaelmas 1872. I cut litter on the Forest of Ashdown in or about 1875. That was the only occasion because I have plenty of straw and litter on the farm and find it does [not] answer my purpose to use Forest litter. I have never turned out. I have had nothing else from the Forest except stone for the road. I paid for the digging. I succeeded to the farm after Mr. Henry Gardner who occupied it 19 years. He now lives at Church Farm, West Ferring, Sussex.
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| Robert Wood | m: c 1838 | Martha | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1818 West Grinstead, Sussex | b: 1817 Cuckfield, Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mary | Kate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| b: 1851 Newick, Sussex | b: 1858 Newick, Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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