Whether you have a question, a memory to share, or you are researching your Ditchling roots, we would love to hear from you.
Email [email protected] or fill in the form
We are always pleased to help people tracing a Ditchling connection. We cannot promise to do all the research for you, but we will gladly search our database and resource material to see what we hold and point you in the right direction.
Our records run to more than 28,000 entries, covering families, houses, the churchyard, the war memorial and village life across the centuries. Tell us what you are looking for, with any names, dates or addresses you already have, and we will take it from there.
Or come and see us at a drop-in session: The White Horse, 16 West Street, Ditchling, BN6 8TS, on the second Wednesday of each month, 2.00 to 5.00 pm.
The second Wednesday of each month, 2.00 to 5.00 pm
The White Horse, 16 West Street, Ditchling, BN6 8TS
No need to book, but it’s helpful if you let us know you’re coming
Our drop-in sessions run every month, and everyone is welcome. Come along with a question, a photograph, a family puzzle, or simply to see what we do.
Other archives, societies and community pages that may help with your research.
The Keep
Search the records at the East Sussex Record Office
West Sussex Record Office
Search the records held in West Sussex
Sussex Past
Sussex Archaeological Society: archaeology and history
Ancestry.co.uk
Millions of family history records online
British Association for Local History
Promoting the study of local history
Ditchling.com
News, events and information for the village
Ditchling History Project on Facebook
More news about our work
Friends of Ditchling Village
Community group page
Memories of Ditchling
Shared photos and reminiscences
Evidence is always partial. Facts are not truth… information is not knowledge. And history is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past… It’s what’s left in the sieve when the centuries have run through it – a few stones, scraps of writing, scraps of cloth.
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