Cuckfield Connections

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 20 April 1909 FATAL CYCLING ACCIDENT AT CUCKFIELD TERRIBLE COLLISION The little hamlet of Brook Street, which...

1. In 1992 Cuckfield boasted six public houses and most in their time have served as coaching inns. But only the Talbot, built in 1763...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 10 January 1888 Obituary.—We have to record the death, at the age of 82, of Mr. William ____, which occurred...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 26 September 1893 THE RELIEF OF CUCKFIELD. History repeats itself, and the famous Relief of Lucknow has been...

Cuckfield The late snow storm exceeded in fury any previous one within the memory of the oldest inhabitants of this place. Its effects...

Christmas Fare Our tradesman's shops begin to put on the show for Christmas. Among the butchers, Mr Thomas Jenner has a splendid show of...

The snowstorm Old people who chronicle the weather in their memory say they do not remember so heavy a fall of snow before Christmas for...

King's Head, Cuckfield 18 October 1836 Rather a curious incident occurred this morning. As James Lintott was standing at Thomas Jenner’s...

In 1881 an experimental farm was set up at Whiteman's Green on land lent for the purpose at Beech Farm by Major Warden Sergison...

£1 in 1883 = £70 today I shilling = £3.30 today 1 penny = 28p today £1 was 3 days wages for skilled tradesman From Mid Sussex Times...

1. In 1294 William de Strones, Vicar of Cuckfield, was sentenced for poaching deer in Cuckfield Park, and Walter de la Mare was drowned...

Just after the First World War the Sergison heirs who owned the Cuckfield Park estate decided to part with some unique, valuable but...

The Twiner family, Frederick and Adelaide and their children Nellie, Adelaide (Addie) and James (Jim) moved from Molls Mill near Withyham...

The average Briton had very little knowledge of Geology, and perhaps cares less. In his mind the subject is generally associated with...

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

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 20 December 1866 Accident – a serious accident happened to the Reverend J. O. Haweis of Warninglid on Tuesday...

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

THE MID-SUSSEX TIMES—TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1905. “IT IS MORE THAN I CAN BEAR.” A Lady’s Maid Drowns Herself in Cuckfield Park Cuckfield was...

In 1858 Cuckfield Vicar Rev Henry Fearon performed a wedding ceremony for two nieces with a reception in the grounds of Ockenden house...

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...