FOREST ASHDOWNS

All that remains of a once vast, wild and ancient forest that stretched from Kent to Hampshire. Pre-historic man hunted deer and swine. The Romans built a road through it to Londinium and exploited the mineral wealth with a highly organised iron industry. The Saxons and Normans were happy to remain outside the Essendoun Forest but there have always been those who have used the forest for their own purposes: encroaching farmers, smugglers, commoners and enclosers... Genealogical pedigree of the Ashdown Family of Sussex, the Rowland Family of Cuckfield, Sussex, the McCulloch Family of Brighton, Sussex the Temple Family of Wighton,Norfolk, The Gill Family of Dorset and Somerset, The Ekins Family of Northants and India, the Hutchinson Family of Cumbria and the Budgett Family of Somerset

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