Before acknowledging the various documentary sources from which we have gleaned our information we must express a debt of gratitude to a number of people who inspired, encouraged and guided us in our enjoyable task.

Judith Hunter gave a course on "Local History through Maps" at the Guildford Institute and encouraged us to apply our new knowledge. Consequently we visited Guildford Muniment Room where Shirley Corke produced the 1686 map of William Crosse's estate and pointed us to the Churchyard Rails Register.

Thus inspired we revisited the Muniment Room on many occasions where we received friendly help and advice from all the staff as we also did, in due course, from everyone at the Local Studies Library in Guildford and at the Record Office in Kingston. These three archives are now combined in the Surrey History Centre at Woking.
Included in these archives were many volumes published by the Surrey Records Society and the Surrey Archeological Society to both of whom we owe our thanks.

We also wish to thank the owners of many of the old houses in Jacobs Well for their hospitality in allowing us access to their homes and for letting us study such documents as were available. In this connection the expert reports on several of these houses made by the Domestic Buildings Research Group (Surrey) have been most instructive, as have the transcriptions of various wills and inventories made by Marion Herridge.

John Meredith provided the many excellent photographs of the old buildings and other points of historical interest around the village.

Finally we are very grateful to many inhabitants of the village who have tried to provide answers to our numerous questions about that part of the village history "within the memory of man".