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2007 Barcombe House, Lawn Cottage, Barcombe Mill, the Oil Mill, The White house, Little House, Pikes Cottage, Mill Cottage, Roots Cottage, Crink Cottages, and land. |
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A major landholding built up around Barcombe Mill, the estate incorporates many diverse tenements. The precise bounds of the individual tenements cannot be determined. However, clearly there were several large holdings centred around the Mill and the Crink, one of which, possibly Rowleys, could be the major house, exact location unknown, depicted in 1715 on a map of John Rootes' land (67).
The estate recorded in 1840 comprised the tenements acquired by Thomas Rickman from various owners, principally John Plumer (successor to the Rootes family who gave their name to Rootes Cottages) and Ambrose Galloway, between 1767 and 1793. Although no freehold tenement relating to the mill is recorded in the court books the estate is known to have included some freehold land which is recorded on a map of 1793 (58), a further warning that we can never be certain that the bounds of the tenements can be defined with complete accuracy. |
