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Otham Feed

River in East Sussex, England

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 2, 2024
Entity authorityQ115801640 ↗
Source-derived summary

Otham Feed is a minor, 532-metre (1,745 ft) long river (brook) and drainage ditch of the Pevensey Levels in the civil parish of Westham, Wealden District of East Sussex, England. It gives rise to Otham Court Ditch.

Course

Rising from water accumulated in Oggs Wood just north of the civil parish of Polegate, Otham Feed flows a northwesterly course for 346 metres (1,135 ft). It then flows easterly for another 186 metres (610 ft), before finally giving rise to Otham Court Ditch.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Otham Feed” as river in East Sussex, England. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 82-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Otham, Feed and River can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as river in East Sussex, England. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 2, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q115801640. Authority coordinates are 50.838, 0.261. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Otham Feed”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Otham Feed primary sources, Otham Feed archive and Otham research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Otham Feed”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Otham Feed” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.