The Sackville archive
Category
Archive Collections
Date
circa 1225 - 1945
Materials
Collection
Knole, Kent
NT 130711
Summary
The Sackville archive. Title deeds, correspondence, estate papers, accounts, business papers, legal documents, maps and family papers. This archive is primarily papers relating to the Sackville family and Knole, although there are also a number of other families related to them by marriage. A quantity of manorial documents, title deeds and estate papers for estates in Kent, London, Sussex, Essex, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire survive in the collection, dating from medieval times in the case of the Sussex, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire estates, till the present century. Centre for Kentish Studies reference number: U269 Knole House passed through royal hands to the Sackville family – Knole’s inhabitants from 1603 to today