Langridge, Henry. 71. Splaynes Green, Fletching. Sawyer. Born at Splaynes Green, 21 st December 1807. (His evidence will probably not be required. He is a hale man.) The March after I was 12 years old I went to service with Mr. John Wood at Danehill. He used about 20 acres of land with a house on it (marked Christopher's Farm on the 6 inch map). I was with him 4 years less 2 months. He had litter during that time every year from the Forest (not Chelwood Common). I used to go with the horse and cart to fetch it. We got it near Chelwood Gate. He also had turf off the Forest. I did not go after that. He used to turn sheep on the Forest, but no cattle. I next came to live with my uncle at Splaynes Green 2 years and worked for Sir Thomas Wilson at Searles. I used to go up with the team to the Forest to fetch turf for fuel for the cottages on the farm but I cannot recollect whether they had litter. They very likely had litter. I then went to Grislings Common and lived with my Father 6 or 7 years in a very old house with a garden lying just in front of the lane turning into Coldstone (or Goldstone) Farm. There was a barn adjoining the cottage at that time which has since been pulled down. We had turf from Ashdown Forest for fuel all the time I was there. The cottage belongs to Lady Shelley and now goes with Moyses Farm. I then married at 24 and came to live at Splaynes Green where I have lived ever since and worked for some years as sawyer with my farm and for the last 30 years nearly I have worked as sawyer for Lord Sheffield.

Moyses Farm used to belong to my great uncle Nicholas Kenward. When I was a boy he sold it and came to live at a house with a 6 acre field behind it at Splaynes Green in the fork of the roads to Searles and Moyses. He lived there about 20 years till he died and always had turf off the Forest for fuel. Grover lived there a little while after him and I then came there when I married and lived in the house ever since, but have not used the field. I have had turf off the Forest occasionally to within about 6 years ago and a load or two of litter twice, the last time was 7 or 8 years ago. The Stevensons have used the field all the time they have had the Spring Farm. The place is now called Kenwards after my great uncle, but there used to be a curious name to it which I cannot remember.