Cuckfield Connections

On January 14th 1851, several months after he had been awarded the prestigious role of Poet Laureate, the 41 year old Alfred Lord...

Dundee Courier - Saturday 16 July 1881 THE BRIGHTON MURDER. EXAMINATION OF LEFROY. THE JOURNEY TO CUCKFIELD. COOLNESS OF THE PRISONER....

David Scanlon in his book ‘Paranormal Sussex’ relates the well known and oft-repeated story of Cuckfield’s unfortunate Geranium Jane....

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 31 August 1909 TRAGIC DEATH OF A DOCTOR OF MUSIC FOUND SHOT BY THE ROADSIDE AT HAYWARDS HEATH A painful...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 06 June 1905 A BOY SHOT AT BOLNEY. Strange Case at Haywards Heath Petty Sessions. A peculiar case was that...

Dundee Evening Telegraph - Friday 22 October 1937 MURDER CHARGE REDUCED LABOURER ACCUSED OF MANSLAUGHTER Prosecution Story of Struggle A...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 03 October 1882 HORRIBLE DISCOVERY IN RIVER’S WOOD ARDINGLY. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. On Sunday morning, as a man...

Interest in the murder was suddenly reignited after two 'quiet' years when a couple of drunken men were overheard discussing the 1869...

Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal - Tuesday 04 January 1870 THE SUSPECTED MURDER AT CUCKFIELD. The man Charles Rowland, alias...

Maidstone Telegraph - Saturday 01 January 1870 THE SUSPECTED MURDER IN SUSSEX It is now thought that the man who was found in a ditch at...

THE WESTERN DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1, 1869 On Monday morning, the dead body of a man was found near Newbury Pond, Cuckfield by a...

Lincolnshire Chronicle - Friday 12 April 1895 LONDON AND PROVINCIAL NEWS. Strange Charge of Murder. At Hayward's Heath Police Court, on...

Sheerness Times Guardian - Saturday 09 September 1871 THE MURDER AT CUCKFIELD. About the middle of November, 1869, a man named James...