Cuckfield Connections

The content and inborn hostility with which every proprietor of a pool and animal and a car regard to bicyclist will be aggravated by the...

The Chinese sugar grass is the name of an extraordinary plant introduced into Cuckfield with the greatest success, and promises to be a...

Miss Baillie Hamilton of Rusper gave a short talk on trees to the Cuckfield Women’s Institute who met in the open air in the Vicarage...

(answers tomorrow in Cuckfield Gossip) 1. What private Girls’ School, operating from 1867-1955, stood in the grounds nearby Warden Park...

A heavy gale raged over Mid-Sussex on Tuesday night, and at Slough Green, near Cuckfield a huge tree was blown down, completely blocking...

1. What nickname did locals give this tree (photograph c1900) and what was the superstition about it? Answer: The Doom Tree; it was said...

Answers in tomorrow's Cuckfield Gossip 1. What nickname did locals give this tree (photograph c1900) and what was the superstition about...

ROSCOMMON & LEITRIM GAZETTE – Saturday 23 August 1845 HYDROPHOBIA* IN A COW. A short time ago one of Mr Hallett’s (of Cuckfield) horses...

One day last week, as a little boy was playing by the road side, near Cuckfield, seeing a horse near, the little urchin took hold of its...

Answers tomorrow! 1.. Henry Kingsley (brother of Charles) was a popular Victorian novelist whose name was later given to the High Street...

On Thursday Mr Constable, of the firm of Messrs. Constable, the well-known carting contractors., met his death in a strange and sudden...

Answers tomorrow with the article! 1. In what year did Mrs Worsley of Broxmead officially hand over the deeds for her land ‘behind the...

The Mid Sussex Times Wednesday November 12, 1941 DIAMOND WEDDING AT CUCKFIELD. FARMING RECOLLECTIONS OF MR GEORGE PICKARD. FROM HAND...

Cuckfield Mr JC Macfarlane, of Cuckfield, chairman of the Haywards Heath branch of the National Farmers Union, when the question of...

Mid Sussex Times July 5th 1927 Young girls on the dole. To the editor of the MID SUSSEX TIMES. Dear Sir, will you spare me a small space...

From SUSSEX RECORD SOCIETY DIGITAL EDITIONS 2001 volume 85 : Sussex Depicted Cuckfield owed its coaching trade to the turnpike road...

From the book Southern English Roads of 1896 we read: Cuckfield Place too has the honour of being haunted with a good old-fashioned ghost...

To the Editor of the Mid Sussex Times Sir, Seeing in your issue of the 21st inst. that ten pairs of cottages will shortly be erected in...

Our heritage A short history of Cuckfield. In the Middle Ages Cuckfield was one of the market towns of Sussex and most of the houses and...

Local Government inquiry into the application of the Cuckfield Rural District Council to borrow £15,000 for works in connection with the...