Cuckfield Connections

The 2nd Battalion of the 8th City of London Regiment Post Office Rifles were billeted in Cuckfield for six months between November 1914...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Friday 28 January 1921 WAR MEMORIAL DEDICATED. — Churchmen and Free Churchmen flocked to the Parish Church...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 04 January 1916 A TOUCHING NARRATIVE PRIVATE SIFFLEET, OF HAYWARDS HEATH, RELATES HIS EXPERIENCES AT THE...

Cuckfield - the Rifles Dismissal of one of the Corps - John Holford the gigantic recruit, who stands in his stockings 6ft 8in, has been...

On the morning of Sunday, 3rd of September 1939, Dr Farr was attending a patient at the Deaf School in Cuckfield House when the air raid...

Helen Invicta Hall was a writer, historian, artist and expert needlewoman. She was born in Shoreham, West Sussex in 1873. During the War...

Writing to Mr. Hayden, of Haywards Heath. last week. Corporal M. Anscombe, of the 8th Royal Sussex Pioneers, said: 'I thought you would...

In 1778 famous novelist, playright and satirist Frances (Fanny) Burney (1752-1840) stopped (most probably in the Kings Head) overnight in...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Friday 30 October 1914 CUCKFIELD AND THE BELGIAN REFUGEES. PRIEST'S STORY OF GERMAN ATROCITIES. , The...

Wing Commander Bernard Edward Harrison RAF was fined £1 [£50] for failing to immobilise a car left unattended in Church Street, Cuckfield...

On Sunday last the remaining remnant of the glorious 18th of June [date of Battle], in this parish, departed this life, within a few days...

When the war with France broke out again in 1803, Napoleon assembled a large army at Boulogne to invade England. 300,000 volunteers...

This postcard must portray many local men who failed to return from the First World War. They were so unaware of the horrors that lay...

For some children it may have been an exciting adventure, for others evacuation from London at the time of the Blitz in September 1939...

We learn from the Gentleman’s Magazine, dated May 1842, that Admiral Sir John Wells, GCB after 65 years in the navy died at his home,...

For so many years Cuckfield was associated with the wonderful deaf school run by Mary Stephens Corbishley MBE. Initially it was located...

Not many people are aware that Cuckfield could have been right at the centre of a defensive front line to resist Napoleon’s invasion...

The Battle of Muster Green (also known as the Battle of Haywards Heath) was a minor battle at the start of the English Civil Wars that...

Captain Percy Burrell's death in futile British action recalled on monument A striking white and grey relief on the south wall of Holy...

Did Hitler's first UK flying bomb land in Cuckfield? Although sometimes disputed (by a matter of eleven minutes), Cuckfield has the...