Catalogue description Papers concerning the Ashdown Forest dispute in the High Court of Justice

For papers relating to the case and appeal in Earl De La Warr v Miles and Hale, 1878-1881, see AMS 3780-4104; for records of the Conservators of Ashdown Forest, [1234]-1973, see CAF & ACC 5640; for papers of the Clerk to the Ashdown Forest Protection Society, [1691]-1936, see ACC 6815/1

The five volumes of reminiscences concerning the Forest were deposited with the Sussex Archaeological Society by William Augustus Raper of Messrs Raper and Fovargue of Battle, solicitors on 12 July 1934 and given the reference RF/2/C; it is unclear when the other documents were deposited. The whole group was transferred to East Sussex Record Office on 15 Jan 1997

The case Earl De La Warr v Miles and Hale was heard in the Common Pleas Division of the High Court of Justice in 1877 before being transferred to the Chancery Division in 1878. In 1880 the case was decided against the defendants, who then won the case on appeal in 1881. A cross-action, Hale and others v Earl De La Warr was undertaken in 1878