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Because the land within this tenement was held of two manors and the name Scufflings is common to tenements on both manors the bounds of the individual tenements parts are impossible to identify with any certainty. Fortunately maps of the estate survive and help with the identification. Clearly Delves Farm represents the tenement with that name but the other dwellings implied in the manorial records cannot be identified. Map evidence and archaeological fieldwork suggest that there may have been several dwellings within this landholding, medieval in origin, but now lost. In 1764 the land was purchased from William Earle by John Mill of Westmeston. His daughter Dorothy, who had married John Attree of Theobold's in Wivelsfield, inherited on the death of her brother John. Both the Earle and the Attree family were significant landowners here in the 17th and 18th centuries. The earliest documentary descriptions all suggest that at least part of the land was held in strips in a common field system, but by the time the tenement can be identified on early maps those strips had been consolidated into fields within a discrete landholding. The sharp, artificial, right-angled field boundaries to the east of Banks Farm suggest that was originally an area of common fields. There is only scanty evidence for the earlier history of these tenements and the individual acres cannot be identified. Following an exchange agreement between George Grantham and Frederick Smith (Shenstone) in 1870 the land to the south of Anchor Lane was retained as part of the Barcombe Place estate and land to the north of the lane was incorporated in the Sutton Hall estate. |
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