Cuckfield Connections

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 20 November 1923 ANSTYE HILL ACCIDENT.- In our paragraph last week's issue referring to a baby's remarkable...

Cuckfield- a town with a 13th century charter to prove it. Cuckfield (Cuca’s Feld - the latter meaning an open space rather than a...

In 1675 there were four roads out of London into Sussex in 1675, and they all went to places on, or near, the Sussex Coast; but going...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 08 March 1927 RETIRED BUTLER’S SUICIDE AT CUCKFIELD A MILLER’S TRAGIC EARLY MORNING DISCOVERY The tragic death...

Oil exploration today is a contentious subject, but nearly 60 years ago it certainly wasn’t. And with Balcombe in the news again as the...

Sussex Advertiser - Tuesday 19 September 1865 CUCKFIELD. Interference with the Rights and Privileges of the People. —A correspondent...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 26 November 1935 NOISE AT CUCKFIELD. To the Editor of The Mid-Sussex Times. Dear Sir, —The picturesque and...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 30 October 1934 LOAN EXHIBITION AT CUCKFIELD. Curios and Antiques in the Women’s Institute Room. Cuckfield...

West Sussex County Times - Saturday 04 December 1880 CUCKFIELD. At the Petty Sessions. on Monday, before J. M. Norman (in the chair),...

What could be one of the most valuable antiquities to be found in Cuckfield was recorded in 1703. Not only is it unusual for archaeology...

Who would have thought that Cuckfield once had it's own telephone exchange, complete with it's own set of 'Hello Girls' and a few boys of...

When William the Conqueror made his pre-channel tunnel landing on the Sussex coast he wasn't coming, as many do now, on an away day...

Did you know one of the characters in one of Britain’s favourite TV sitcoms had a link to Cuckfield? Geoffrey Lumsden who played Captain...

In this article by Margaret Holt, she looks back at how the wealthy could, and sometimes almost reluctantly would, provide for the poor....

In this article by Margaret Holt, she looks back at the role of the pig and how poaching helped sustain the local community two centuries...

In this article by Margaret Holt, she looks at the life of a dairy maid two centuries ago. After a year or two in service the girl might...

A Cuckfield Childhood by Shirley Bond My family moved to Cuckfield in 1940 and lived in the same house in Broad Street until my parents...

In this article by Margaret Holt, she looks back at how people fared in Cuckfield and the local area two centuries ago. Young children...

In this article by Margaret Holt she looks back at how local farmers took pride in building their herds of cattle - and the extent that...

Sometimes the picture we have of country life in the Victorian era is coloured by the writings of those who could only see the sunshine...