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To be prepared for the coming dry season, tenders are being invited by the Local Board for the hire of a horse and man for street...

At a meeting of the Cuckfield Rural Parish Council in the Queen's Hall on August 28 [1948] it was decided to ask for a precept of £100 on...

More then and now pictures soon....

More 'then and now' photographs soon!

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December 1976 Sussex Life 'Our little periodical' Maisie Wright turns the pages of a Victorian parish magazine to reveal fascinating...

With the decline in (horse and) coach travel it was inevitable that with the innovation of petrol driven motor buses that these would...

Sussex Living May 2013 Intrigued about the origin of the Ansty Cross, Phil Pavey went off to do some research and found more than he...

Cuckfield lies almost northwards as the crow flies from Brighton and is the centre of an administrative area which embraces its...

Evening Argus December 13 1974 Man who built for the stars… There was no doubt in the eyes of Mr George Knott. They were definitely...

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...