Ticehurst, like the other hurst in this district, indicates the ancient presence of deep forest, much of which still remains. Its glades and thickets were once the haunts of the fairy Tya, who, like his Saxon brethren, Nip, and Trip, and Job, has left his name to many an English green wood. The whole coimtry is broken into the most picturesque hill and dale. A handbook for travellers in Kent and Sussex (1858), 230.