Cuckfield Connections

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

According to the 1885 ‘Sussex Place Rhymes and Local Proverbs’, by Frederick Ernest Sawyer, there was an old Sussex proverb: The people...

When we think of the connotations of the word ‘workhouse’ we might recall the film Oliver and the grim prison environment and surly staff...

In the following article from the Brighton Gazette in 1849 it appears that Staplefield school construction was funded by Cuckfield...

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...

On Sunday February 21st there was much excitement outside the parish church just as the congregation was leaving the evening service. A...

Cuckfield: Housebreaking On Tuesday night some thieves broke into the White Hart Inn (Mrs Stubberfield's) by forcing open the shutter, a...

Dundee Courier - Saturday 16 July 1881 THE BRIGHTON MURDER. EXAMINATION OF LEFROY. THE JOURNEY TO CUCKFIELD. COOLNESS OF THE PRISONER....

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...

Scottish playwright James Forsyth, was born on March 3, 1913 in Glasgow and received his training at the Glasgow School of Art. He was...

On Thursday last, John Fearon, Esq., of Ockenden House [Cuckfield], followed up his liberality, noticed a few weeks since, by giving a...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 11 June 1935 CUCKFIELD WOMAN’S FATAL FALL. NEIGHBOUR’S DISCOVERY AT OLD MILL A woman who had lived for nearly...

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

Sussex Advertiser - Tuesday 12 July 1853 CUCKFIELD. The Storm. —About half-past ten on Thursday night, we were visited by a most terrific...

Here is a selection of memories Mrs Emily Wells born c1850, and latterly lived in Broad Street from an interview conducted by the Womens’...

Reginald Tree was the village baker from the 1940s through the 1980s. This intriguing account of his life that must have been written in...

Throughout our country, Bonfire Night 2020 will be a subdued affair. Public firework celebrations have all been cancelled due to social...

Those who were living in the village in the 1960s to 80s will fondly remember Cuckfield’s famous resident humorist Basil Boothroyd who...