The survey of the parish of Ash that was carried out in the year 1792 was the work of one T. Fulljames, of Orpington. The results of his labours were embodied in a handsome folio volume which, over the years, shed its covers but kept its original spine. The pages, including a magnificent series of maps made on a scale of four chains to the inch and outlined in colour, are in very fair condition. Maps apart, the book includes an index in the nature of a dramatis personae, a schedule of the ninety-two holdings then existing in Ash, with the acreages and modes of cultivation, or other appropriate particulars of more than six hundred pieces or parcels of land, a summary wherein the totals are collected and, finally, a perambulation of the bounds of the parish. The mind boggles at the industry required of Mr Fulljames in preparing his survey and can only be the more grateful

for the inherent beauty of the end product and for the wealth of information that it contains.
   Neither the purpose or purposes of the survey nor by whom it was commissioned appear, but it could have been of great assistance in the collection of tithes, in the assessment of the church, poor and highway rates and to the assessors of the Land Tax, who were invariably Ash parishioners. That it was the brain child of the Revd Thomas Lambard seems highly probable. It can, indeed, be seen as something of a corollary to his extended parish registers; those dealt with Ash people, the survey deals with Ash land and only with Ash people in so far as they were owners or occupiers of that land.
   The broad result of the survey was to show that the parish