Cuckfield Connections

From Travellers in Eighteenth-Century England, Rosamond Bayne-Powell recounts a tale by Pastor Moritz, who came to England in 1782. It...

Cuckfield’s King’s Head had a fine ‘Act of Parliament Clock’ (or ‘Tavern Clock’) in the saloon bar. The clock name derives from 1797...

For a long time Cuckfield has been associated with record attempts between London and Brighton. But did you know that the first such...

Towns and villages along the London to Brighton road had more high profile, wealthy and influential dignitaries passing through Cuckfield...

My father was host of the King's Head, which stood where Mr Langton's house now is, and many is the royal guest the old inn has welcomed...

As Mr and Mrs Borrer, jun., were driving through Cuckfield on Thursday; Mr Borrer’s pointer was attacked by a large dog, and a fight took...

We learn from The Sussex Weekly Advertiser in 7 July 1794: ‘The lad who drove the Prince [Prince George: future King George IV] on...

Cuckfield owed much of its wealth and prominence through its importance as stopping place for coaches. The road was improved - and the...

Some of the last coaches to run on the London Brighton road through Cuckfield were the night mail coaches. Here is a personal account of...

Writing in in the mid 1850s, Samuel Shergold, observed that coach travellers were more likely to find love on a stage coach rather than...

We now started for Cuckfield, nine miles, where we changed horse - and then prosecuted our final stage to Brighton. The Downs began to...

Edward Bates (1767–1845) the local clockmaker, whose shop was close by the King’s Head, recorded in his diary in 1819 that the...

The following was found in ‘The Penguin Book of Ghosts: Haunted England’ by Jennifer Westwood, Jacqueline Simpson, 2008 detailing the...

James Selby was the most popular and highly respected coachman of his time. Towards the end of his life he regularly drove his own coach...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 22 May 1888 SAUNTERING BY SAUNTERER. No XIII. I have heard of a man who tried to please everybody, but failing...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 13 September 1887 SAUNTERINGS BY SAUNTERER. No.IV That BoIney was a very ancient settlement in the depths of...