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Cuckfield Connections
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1928: Queen Victoria's Usher buried in Cuckfield
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 10 January 1928 DEATH OF THE EARL OF MUNSTER FUNERAL AT CUCKFIELD. A prominent family with Cuckfleld...
Jun 20, 20213 min read
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1920: Entertaining lecture on 800 years of Cuckfield Church History
Sussex Agricultural Express - Friday 07 May 1920 HISTORICAL CUCKFIELD. On Saturday the members of the Brighton and Hove Archaeological...
Jun 16, 20211 min read
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1859: Procession and many toasts at the Harvest Festival
A harvest festival of a new character was celebrated for the first time at Cuckfield, on Tuesday, the 30th ult. Holy Communion was...
Jun 9, 20212 min read
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1929: Sussex Archaeologists explore Tudor manors and Cuckfield Church
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 18 June 1929 SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGISTS AT CUCKFIELD Visits to the Park, Legh Manor and the Parish Church A party...
Jun 6, 20215 min read
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Who shot the cock? The facts revealed ...
When you are practising to sharpshoot a rifle you need a fair sized target at a useful distance away. A cockerel on the top of a church...
Jun 5, 20216 min read
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1871: Unconscious from his own gas at the church
A Serious Position Mr Edwin Steere the superintendent at the Gasworks, has for some days past been engaged with a workman in blocking up...
Jun 1, 20211 min read
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1967: The Churches of Cuckfield
The power of the Lord of the Manor was equalled only by that of the Church in the Middle Ages. The tithes of Cuckfield were paid to monks...
May 28, 20213 min read
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1890: A big society wedding for a Sergison daughter
Marriage of Mr JHK Bailey and Miss Sergison, from the Monmouthshire Beacon, Saturday 16 August 1890: In the quaint old parish of...
Apr 23, 20214 min read
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1945: Cathedral of Mid Sussex
Sussex Agricultural Express - Friday 12 January 1945 Many interesting historic facts and anecdotes were mentioned by Mrs MA Clowes, of...
Apr 13, 20213 min read
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1938: The myths and legends of old Cuckfield and a rambler's route from Horsham to the town.
West Sussex County Times - Friday 22 July 1938 PICTURESQUE WEST SUSSEX AND ITS BORDERS No.7 ROUTES FOR THE RAMBLER CUCKFIELD Cuckfield,...
Apr 9, 202112 min read
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1981: A delightful summary of Cuckfield's past and a snapshot of contemporary life in the old town
How Prinny caused a stir in Cuckfield Vida Herbison and photographer Roy Vandyke visit Cuckfield - favoured for Inns by the Prince Regent...
Apr 4, 20218 min read
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1858: Unmarked cross mysteriously placed in Cuckfield cemetery
Brighton Gazette - Thursday 18 February 1858 CUCKFIELD. The Burial Board. — On Thursday evening, a very large meeting of the rate-payers...
Apr 3, 20214 min read
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1850s: Fascinating Cuckfield recollections
We believe* that these are the recollections of Thomas Norris born 1849, son of Thomas Snr who was schoolmaster of the National School...
Mar 24, 20214 min read
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1893: A call to act against the desecration of tombs in Cuckfield Churchyard
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 05 September 1893 CUCKFIELD CHURCHYARD. To the Editor of The Mid Sussex Times. Dear Sir, —I should be glad of...
Mar 20, 20212 min read
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1906: Peeress writer buried in Cuckfield
Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 20 October 1906 CUCKFIELD. COUNTESS OF MUNSTER'S FUNERAL —Amid the peaceful surroundings of...
Mar 9, 20212 min read
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1550s: 'Nobleman's gates' in the churchyard
William de Warren, 6th Earl of Surrey, gave to the church of the Holy Trinity, of Cuckfield, half an acre of land In the same parish. On...
Mar 8, 20212 min read
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1855: Assault In Cuckfield Church
Morning Chronicle - Saturday 18 August 1855 ASSAULT IN A PARISH CHURCH. At the Cuckfield County Court, on Thursday, a curious case came...
Mar 5, 20213 min read
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1843: The Cuckfield Vicar -'women query chastity'
The 1834 Poor Law Act resulted in the setting up of an enquiry into the conditions of employment of women and children in agriculture....
Mar 4, 20213 min read
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1881: Strange circumstances of Cuckfield churchyard interment
West Sussex County Times - Saturday 12 February 1881 ON Wednesday last week Capt. G. R. S. Bowlby, captain in the 94th Regiment, South...
Feb 21, 20212 min read
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1931: Architectural historian's detailed observations on Cuckfield's ancient Church
Sussex Agricultural Express - Friday 04 September 1931 THE ANCIENT CHURCHES OF EAST SUSSEX CUCKFIELD CHURCH Cuckfield Church, which is...
Feb 8, 202111 min read
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