1000 draft surveys and fully worked-up maps and other archives

Item author: William Figg and his son, William, of Lewes, cartographers
Item date: 18th - 19th centuries
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 28,869
Item date acquired: 1988
Item institution: East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Record Office
Town/City: Lewes
County: East Sussex

The surveys provide evidence for a vanished landscape, showing estates, buildings and fields which no longer survive and providing evidence for agricultural practises which have long disappeared. William Figg the younger was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and preserved early maps iof East Sussex in large numbers. Some of the finest of this collection were drawn by Thomas Fulljames of Orpington for the estates of the Duke of Dorset at Hartfield and Withyham in 1791

Item Provenance
Collection bought by George Fuller 1870 when he acquired the Figg practise. Sothebys Billingshurst November 1988, Lots 1251 - 1289