shows Mungeam at ‘Ash Place or Court lodge’ and as farming three hundred and eighty acres and employing twelve men; a decade later, when the house was simply called ‘Ash Courtlodge’, he had added another ten acres and. was employing nine men and four boys.
   William Mungeam was still at ‘Ash ct.’ when Harrod’s Directory was published in 1867, but by 1871 the tenant was Edward Martin Hilder, a native of Northiam and so another Sussex man. There had been something of an Hilder invasion into the locality as an elder brother, Albert, was then farming upwards of five hundred acres from Ridley Court. The Ash Place Farm complex was by this time down to three hundred and twenty acres, which Edward worked with six men and three boys. In addition, his eldest son had graduated as a ‘Farmers Son’, but his must have been a somewhat token assistance; he was only eight years old.
   In the early years of the present century house and farm were divorced and the farm has since been carried on from a modern farmhouse, built nearby. The change came in time to save some of the original decor of the old house, though inevitably much had been lost. It has since been known as the Manor House, or on occasion the Old Manor House, or, as now, Ash Manor. The earlier name was perhaps abandoned. to avoid confusion

with Ash Place Farm, a slender reason for so unhappy a breach with tradition.
   Although the Rectory, now the Old Rectory, was from time to time a Lambarde home, Ash Place seems to have had but one occupant of that name. He, Major Francis Fane Lambarde, came there soon after its farmhouse days were over, but he was not responsible for, nor did he much care for, the change of name.¹⁴
   Fane Lambarde, who was born in 1868, was the son of Francis Lambarde of Sevenoaks. His military career, which included service as a gunner officer in the South African War, ended, as he thought, with his retirement from the Army in 1910. He seems to have left Ash at much the same time after only a brief stay. In the First World War he achieved. much distinction and many honours and when it was over retired once more, this time with the rank of Brigadier General. Lambarde’s interests were by no means confined to matters martial. He became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and was for over forty years a member of the Kent Archaeological Society. In 1914 he accepted joint editorship of Archaeologia Cantiana, but in only a few months this appointment was overtaken by events. He died full of years, soon after the Second War. It must have been while he