Cuckfield Connections

It's perhaps surprising to learn that Brighton northbound bus stops have virtually remained unchanged from the ones used by stage coaches...

A House of Lords committee in 1836 took evidence from a wide range of representatives from affected concerns while considering the...

While researching the early history of The Talbot Inn, Cuckfield I came across the following poem, I know it doesn't mention Cuckfield -...

Sussex Advertiser - Tuesday 17 September 1878 Accident.—A little girl, Jane Wood, aged two years, residing at Bedlam cottage, had a very...

Sadly we have little information and no positively-identified photographs of the following four toll houses although they all had an...

The turnpike history starts about 1817 after the relocation of a section of the most popular London to Brighton route away from Cuckfield...

The Bolney Tollhouse was an octagonal building between Hickstead and Bolney crossroads on the east side of the road (see inset photo...

The Butler's Green tollhouse and tollgate pictured was also known as Wigperry Toll and for a while 'Broad Street' [located at TQ 321238]...

The location of the toll booth at Whiteman's Green [TQ 304257] was close to the junction with the road heading north to Staplefield,...

This is the first of a series of posts about our local toll road system, the local tollhouses and the benefits and disruption that...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 14 May 1898 CUCKFIELD. ACCIDENT TO THE MAlL. —Early Sunday morning an accident, happily unattended...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 28 September 1889 CUCKFIELD ABUSING MR. K. M. BURRELL. —At the Marlborough-street Police-court,...

On Sunday week Mrs Joseph Anscombe, Bates and Thomas Norris, Jnr, were proceeding to Newick in a basket chaise, for which the horse was...

Lewes 8 August In the last we mentioned that the Prince of Wales did not show the least marked displeasure at the conduct of the post...

The energy of the Prince of Wales at the age of 23 has to be admired here. London to Brighton twice plus two social events. That was at...

This item is from a book written by coachmen Dick Hunt who lived in the Cuckfield and Haywards Heath area, and experienced the dangerous...

In 1810 a new and more direct road [London to Brighton] was made - reducing the distance to 54 miles - via Preston, Cuckfield, Crawley,...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Tuesday 11 September 1877 CUCKFIELD. ALMOST AN ACCIDENT Mr H Neville, fly proprietor of this town, whose...

In 1675 there were four roads out of London into Sussex in 1675, and they all went to places on, or near, the Sussex Coast; but going...

WCA Blew in 'Brighton and its Coaches' quoted from Samuel Shergold’s ‘Recollections of Brighton in the Olden Time’ published in 1853,...