Cuckfield Connections

A remarkable success In water finding has just taken place at Cuckfield by Mr H Chesterman, expert water finder, engineer, and surveyor,...

A runaway bullock, which had bolted from Cuckfield, two miles away, entered an auctioneer’s office at Haywards Heath. The office boy...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 25 May 1897 ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERY AT BALCOMBE FIND OF OLD ENGLISH COINS. And extremely interesting, and what...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 15 March 1932 LITTER AT CUCKFIELD. To the Editor of The Mid-Sussex Times. Dear Sir,—l have been interested in...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 08 March 1932 A COMPLAINT: CUCKFIELD. To the Editor of The Mid Sussex Times- Dear Sir,—-Many thanks for...

Occasionally in historic texts you will come across the Cuckfield area as being in the ‘Hundred’ of Buttinghill. Hundred comes from the...

Extract from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E.V. Lucas 1904 Hayward’s Heath would be our next centre where it's not so new and...

And so into Cuckfield, that pleasant old town, which, standing on no railway, having no manufactures, and being on the slightly hillier...

Globe - Monday 18 September 1837 Base Ingratitude.—At the Lewes Adjourned Sessions, on Friday, Fitzwilliam Burt, aged 22, was ordered to...

A carriage drawn by a horse, and driven by Mr Warren’s coachman, was going towards the railway station [from Balcombe] on Thursday...

The People - Sunday 26 January 1975 ‘COWITZER’ WAR Scent of Battle looms over a rubbish tip. Cor, what a shower! Invading bureaucrats are...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 21 March 1911 CUCKFIELD AND DISTRICT SPARROW CLUB FIRST ANNUAL DINNER LARGE INCREASE IN THE DEATH RATE AMONG...

We are reminded by the Brook Street Design Statement of 2014 about a couple of rumoured secret societies in this northerly outpost of...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 21 July 1936 TOWN PLANNING: CUCKFIELD, To the Editor of The Mid-Sussex Times. Dear Sir, —Are the residents of...

Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 23 June 1877 CUCKFIELD. Narrow Escape from Drowning.—Edward Mitchell, residing at Whiteman's...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 10 May 1927 To the Editor of The Mid-Sussex Times - Dear Sir,- I live in Cuckfield, and there is as much idle...

This Timeline is the first known attempt to collate the key dates and events relating to the coaching period and development of Cuckfield...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 10 July 1883 Dogs and cats are often a great nuisance where there are well-kept gardens, and, as a trespasser,...

The farmyard fire which broke out about 4:30 on Wednesday afternoon at Great Bentley farm, a well-known holding on the side of the state...

I think I would have suggested a rebranding, any suggestions? Mid Sussex Times 22 October 1895 Contributed by Malcolm Davison.