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    1830: The dinosaurs will return to Cuckfield
    • Aug 25, 2021
    • 3 min

    1830: The dinosaurs will return to Cuckfield

    Martin John Spencer Rudwick is a British geologist, historian, and academic. Back in 1975 Rudgwick wrote a paper discussing the cartoons...
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    1834: The country of the Iguanodon
    • Jul 3, 2021
    • 2 min

    1834: The country of the Iguanodon

    An engraved adaptation of John Martin's watercolour The country of the Iguanodon appears as the frontispiece to Gideon Mantell's The...
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    1977: Mantell is a major figure in the history of dinosaur discovery, but ...
    • Jun 14, 2021
    • 2 min

    1977: Mantell is a major figure in the history of dinosaur discovery, but ...

    Illustrated London news 1 December 1977 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Cuckfield dinosaur From Professor W.A.S. Sarjeant Dear Sir, I read with...
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    1881: Pioneering agriculture at Whiteman's Green
    • Dec 22, 2020
    • 3 min

    1881: Pioneering agriculture at Whiteman's Green

    In 1881 an experimental farm was set up at Whiteman's Green on land lent for the purpose at Beech Farm by Major Warden Sergison...
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    1893: the cemetery refused to give up its dead
    • Dec 9, 2020
    • 5 min

    1893: the cemetery refused to give up its dead

    The average Briton had very little knowledge of Geology, and perhaps cares less. In his mind the subject is generally associated with...
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    Victorian Rambles: Whiteman's Green and the Iguanadon find
    • Aug 7, 2018
    • 5 min

    Victorian Rambles: Whiteman's Green and the Iguanadon find

    Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 01 November 1887 SAUNTERINGS BY SAUNTERER. No. VII We have been enjoying what in Canada they term an Indian...
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"Out of the whole world Cuckfield was the birthplace of the dinosaurs" - The Gideon Mantell Story
    • Jun 28, 2018
    • 7 min

    "Out of the whole world Cuckfield was the birthplace of the dinosaurs" - The Gideon Mantell Story

    Illustrated London News - Friday 01 July 1977 The Cuckfield dinosaur by Sally Emerson One day in 1822 Dr Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) was...
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    Gideon Mantell's historic find in Cuckfield
    • Jun 4, 2018
    • 2 min

    Gideon Mantell's historic find in Cuckfield

    One day in 1822 Dr. Gideon Mantell (3 February 1790 – 10 November 1852) was visiting a patient in Cuckfield. Mantell realised how little...
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