1851: Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson and his wife flee from 'haunted home' near Cuckfield
On January 14th 1851, several months after he had been awarded the prestigious role of Poet Laureate, the 41 year old Alfred Lord...
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Cuckfield Connections
A personal journey of discovery
- Nov 23, 2020
- 6 min
1881: Murder suspect Percy Lefroy Mapleton appears in Cuckfield Courtroom
Dundee Courier - Saturday 16 July 1881 THE BRIGHTON MURDER. EXAMINATION OF LEFROY. THE JOURNEY TO CUCKFIELD. COOLNESS OF THE PRISONER....
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- Oct 8, 2020
- 3 min
Geranium Jane - accident or murder?
David Scanlon in his book ‘Paranormal Sussex’ relates the well known and oft-repeated story of Cuckfield’s unfortunate Geranium Jane....
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- Aug 4, 2020
- 3 min
1909: Shot by the roadside in Haywards Heath
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 31 August 1909 TRAGIC DEATH OF A DOCTOR OF MUSIC FOUND SHOT BY THE ROADSIDE AT HAYWARDS HEATH A painful...
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- Jul 6, 2020
- 7 min
1905: Boy Shot at Bolney - but was it intentional?
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 06 June 1905 A BOY SHOT AT BOLNEY. Strange Case at Haywards Heath Petty Sessions. A peculiar case was that...
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- Jun 15, 2020
- 2 min
Confrontation at Burchett's Farm Haywards Heath ends in manslaughter charge
Dundee Evening Telegraph - Friday 22 October 1937 MURDER CHARGE REDUCED LABOURER ACCUSED OF MANSLAUGHTER Prosecution Story of Struggle A...
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- Jun 10, 2020
- 3 min
Haywards Heath labourer makes horrible discovery...
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 03 October 1882 HORRIBLE DISCOVERY IN RIVER’S WOOD ARDINGLY. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. On Sunday morning, as a man...
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- Apr 22, 2020
- 5 min
1869 Cuckfield Murder - two years on: new unexpected leads and the saga comes to a sudden end
Interest in the murder was suddenly reignited after two 'quiet' years when a couple of drunken men were overheard discussing the 1869...
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- Apr 21, 2020
- 5 min
Inquest into 1869 Murder mystery: Testimony of the victim's children
Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal - Tuesday 04 January 1870 THE SUSPECTED MURDER AT CUCKFIELD. The man Charles Rowland, alias...
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- Apr 20, 2020
- 5 min
1869 Cuckfield Murder: Conjecture, theory and further discoveries
Maidstone Telegraph - Saturday 01 January 1870 THE SUSPECTED MURDER IN SUSSEX It is now thought that the man who was found in a ditch at...
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- Apr 18, 2020
- 9 min
1869 Brutal Murder in Cuckfield, media speculation and The Inquest begins ...
THE WESTERN DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1, 1869 On Monday morning, the dead body of a man was found near Newbury Pond, Cuckfield by a...
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- Jun 26, 2018
- 1 min
Suspected Murder in Ashenground Wood
Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 12 April 1895 LONDON AND PROVINCIAL NEWS. Strange Charge of Murder. At Hayward's Heath Police Court, on...
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- Jun 10, 2018
- 3 min
Brutal murder: body found in Newbury Pond
Sheerness Times Guardian - Saturday 09 September 1871 THE MURDER AT CUCKFIELD. About the middle of November, 1869, a man named James...
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