 Alternatively, it may have been at Mile Oak Farm further north.Mile Oak, also spelt "Mileoak" in early documents, was first mentioned on a tithe map of 1840; and the Ordnance Survey map of 1873 identified Mileoak Cottages and Mileoak Barn on the road (now Mile Oak Road) leading north from Portslade village to the South Downs.Two families were recorded as living in Mile Oak in the 1881 census.