Cuckfield Connections

From the book 'Excursions in the County of Sussex' by Thomas Kitson Cromwell 1822. Cuckfield stands very central, both in the rape of...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 16 April 1940 DALMATIAN TRANSGRESSES CUCKFIELD. Herbert Seymour Hotblack, Deakes, Cuckfield, pleaded guilty to...

The Mid Sussex Times on 27 February 1912 summarised Canon Cooper’s researched published  by his son Wilbrahim V Cooper in 'A history of...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 26 July 1938 DALMATIANS AND CHICKEN CUCKFIELD. Herbert Seymour Hotblack, Deakes, Wyllies Lane, Cuckfield, was...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 05 January 1837 CUCKFIELD. The late snow storm exceeded fury any previous one within the memory of the oldest...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 12 June 1900 Inquest.—At the Wheatsheaf Inn yesterday (Monday) afternoon Mr. G. Vere Benson, Coroner for East...

The Victorians were fascinated by science, and the new knowledge and ideas were often shared at public lectures. Cuckfield occasionally...

The depth of snow in drifts in the hollows of most of the roads is reported to be from twelve to twenty feet. In the high open roads...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Friday 03 September 1915 APPRECIATED LETTERS. —A little Balcombe boy, whose father left England for the...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 08 July 1941 CUCKFIELD CLOCK. To the Editor of The Mid-Sussex Times. Dear Sir, lt was reported recently in...

St. Agnes folks are not alone in being chaffed about a cherry beam, a bear-hunt, hedging the cuckoo, etc. In  Sussex they tease Balcombe...

West Sussex Journal, 19 November 1872

The workhouse is very full just now, and officials have little time for work outside the heavy daily duties. The house, however, it is...

The theatricals at Cuckfield Park were continued on Tuesday evening, when upwards of 200 guests assembled in the drawing room, by the...

The 1855 populaion growth figures In our last paper we directed attention to the fact that a decrease in population was evident in the...

It seems strange today that just after the Second World War, Gatwick Airport might have been closed down - as this article in the Crawley...

We are much pleased at having to record the kind actions of Captain Preston, RN, of Borde Hill, towards his poorer neighbours. With his...

We all know how untangling departmental red tape can be and we all know that scarlet is the time-honoured colour for the Post Office....

'If I were the Minister and that plan came before me I should send you a rocket,' declared Major OB Haines, at last night's meeting of...

In a letter to the Mid Sussex Times about 19 March 1889 Cuckfield barrister Twynihoe William Erle recalled case law that referred to...