Cuckfield Connections

I have been trying to find more about the myth of the Lady in Grey at Butlers Green, after having come across an item in Colin Manton's...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 07 September 1848. On Monday, an inquest was held before Inigo Gell, Esq., Deputy-Coroner, at the Talbot Inn,...

In 1724 Daniel Defoe on a journey to Lewes, commented. 'I came there through the deepest, dirtiest, but in many ways the richest and most...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 05 April 1904 'Welcome News.’— We have pleasure in notifying our readers that that excellent organisation, the...

Here is an account of a meteor shower that crossed England and over Cuckfield over 200 years ago on 17 July 1805 at 5.05pm, while it was...

West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 26 May 1927 RISKY RESCUE OF PUPPY. CUCKFIELD WOMAN GOES DOWN A WELL Pluck shown by a Cuckfield resident in...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 06 November 1883 Carriage Accident.- On Friday, four young ladies, two of them daughters of Mr. E. Waugh, had...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 08 September 1864 CUCKFIELD. Total Destruction of Park Barn by Fire. A very destructive fire took place on...

We are 30 years on from the Cuckfield 900 celebrations in 1992. To mark the centennial occasion this story in verse of the village...

My earliest recollections...continued Introduction. Anyone interested in the history of Cuckfield will appreciate the fine contribution...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 27 October 1914 THE CUCKFIELD HOME FOR BELGIAN REFUGEES. To the Editor of The Mid Sussex Times. Sir -I...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 28 June 1927 An interesting and attractive picture of Cuckfield, dated 1790, contained in the June issue of...

Horsham, Petworth, Midhurst and Steyning Express - Tuesday 23 June 1874 CUCKFIELD MENDICITY SOCIETY MENDICITY SOCIETY, Office, 13, RED...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 07 July 1936 CUCKFIELD A sad story told THE CORONER AT THE INQUEST. VERDICT "SUICIDE WHILE NOT OF SOUND MIND.”...

We are in the 35th year since the Great Storm of 1987 - the worst storm in living memory. It occurred on the night of 15 to 16 October,...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 16 April 1895 THE CUCKFIELD TOWN CLOCK. To the Editor of The Mid-Sussex Times. Dear Sir,—l notice by the...

Florence Seal – a 'Cuckfield Connection' Before March 1965, both Cuckfield and Haywards Heath were served by separate telephone...

Another charming compliment was paid to Dame Sussex at GK Chesterton's jubilee luncheon celebration in 1933, at the Old Adelphi Hotel at...

In order to stock the lakes of New Zealand, several boxes containing the ova of the ‘omble chevalier.' a species of chart, have been...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 06 June 1911 SHOCKING FATALITY AT CUCKFIELD. MAN FALLS OFF A WAGGON AND IS RUN OVER AND KILLED A terrible...