Cuckfield Connections

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 19 October 1926 CUCKFIELD , LITERARY SOCIETY. Sir Arthur Smith Woodward on The Iguanodon. A large number of...

200 years ago Gideon Mantell made a famous discovery at the Whiteman's Green quarry where the football and rugby fields now stand. The...

by Sally Emerson Part II of Gideon Mantell's historic find in Cuckfield from Illustrated London News, 1 July 1977 In 1833 he [Gideon...

Sunday Mirror - Sunday 03 September 1972 Monster Statue A LIFESIZE replica of a 16ft.-high prehistoric lizard. the Iguanodon, is to be...

Martin John Spencer Rudwick is a British geologist, historian, and academic. Back in 1975 Rudgwick wrote a paper discussing the cartoons...

An engraved adaptation of John Martin's watercolour The country of the Iguanodon appears as the frontispiece to Gideon Mantell's The...

Illustrated London news 1 December 1977 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Cuckfield dinosaur From Professor W.A.S. Sarjeant Dear Sir, I read with...

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...

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

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 01 November 1887 SAUNTERINGS BY SAUNTERER. No. VII We have been enjoying what in Canada they term an Indian...

Illustrated London News - Friday 01 July 1977 The Cuckfield dinosaur by Sally Emerson One day in 1822 Dr Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) was...

One day in 1822 Dr. Gideon Mantell (3 February 1790 – 10 November 1852) was visiting a patient in Cuckfield. Mantell realised how little...