There were two burials in June 1614 of women who had been (wrote Pugh), ...inhabitants of a house yt stood at Salterford Dam now a Rabit Warren 1760 it looks like some plague. There was a corn mill there and a manor house within a Mote near the Dam head the Mill below it some distance served wh Water by a cut from ye Dam.Nottinghamshire Guardian, 22 June 1883, p. 2; 13 July 1883, p. 2 Despite Pugh's assertion, the 1609 map of Sherwood Forest, while listing "Mr Randall Barton" and "Mr Hutchinson" as freeholders of both "Saunterforde Manor" and "Saunsham Woods", had showed no habitations or buildings of any kind.S.N. Mastoris and S.M. Groves, (eds.), Sherwood Forest in 1609, Thoroton Society, Record Series, XL (Nottingham, 1997), p. 143 and map 14
