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Cuckfield Connections
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Henry Kingsley's last words on Cuckfield
Peeps Into The Past The Mid Sussex Times, 2 June 1931 No lover of Cuckfield can pass down the Church Street without giving a grateful...
Jun 11, 20216 min read
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1929: Sussex Archaeologists explore Tudor manors and Cuckfield Church
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 18 June 1929 SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGISTS AT CUCKFIELD Visits to the Park, Legh Manor and the Parish Church A party...
Jun 6, 20215 min read
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1848 - A detailed account of 'wicked' Dame Sergison- the Cuckfield Park ghost
Cuckfield Park MYSTERIOUS BRITAIN AND IRELAND BY IAN · PUBLISHED MAY 14, 2010 · UPDATED DECEMBER 21, 2018 Cuckfield Park is a private...
May 26, 202110 min read
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1906: A former court beauty dies
Aberdeen Press and Journal, 15 December 1906 The death is announced of Mrs [Catherine] Sergison, in her ninetieth year. She was the...
May 25, 20212 min read
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1415: Was Sergison Arms a gun depot?
Sussex author Thurston Hopkins in his book 'The Lure of Sussex', makes some observations about the Sergison Arms and Muster Green which...
May 23, 20212 min read
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1950: Cuckfield Sign presented by WI in grateful thanks for preservation of the town
CUCKFIELD SIGN GIVEN BY WOMEN’S INSTITUTE FRIDAY’S CEREMONY AT WHITEMAN’S GREEN Mid Sussex Times April 19th 1950 “So we arrive at the...
May 17, 20212 min read
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1912: Memorial trough near the stocks
Cuckfield is to possess a drinking trough and fountain, Lady Glanusk having offered to erect the same as a memorial to her brother,...
May 16, 20211 min read
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1871: Sergisons host Christmas fun and gifts
Captain and Mrs Sergison of Cuckfield Park have not suffered the first Christmas after their return from India to pass by without a...
May 14, 20212 min read
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1740: A jig called 'Cuckfield Place'
This is a jig called ‘Cuckfield Place’ from 'The Compleat Country Dancing-Master' printed by John Walsh, London c1740 . There is no...
May 3, 20211 min read
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1834: Ainsworth features Cuckfield Park
In 1831, 26 year old William Harrison Ainsworth, an amateur dramatist and practising attorney, transformed Cuckfield Place owned by his...
May 1, 20212 min read
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1806: Sergison wife sued for wrongful arrest of godson
Sussex Assizes. Lewes, Aug 5, 1806, before a special jury. Morgan v. Sergison and Wife Mr Garrow told the Jury, that this was a case...
Apr 27, 20216 min read
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1890: A big society wedding for a Sergison daughter
Marriage of Mr JHK Bailey and Miss Sergison, from the Monmouthshire Beacon, Saturday 16 August 1890: In the quaint old parish of...
Apr 23, 20214 min read
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1892: The Battle of Cuckfield ends in 'stalemate'
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 19 April 1892 THE BATTLE OF CUCKFIELD. Favoured with fine though cold weather this battle of the local...
Apr 20, 20213 min read
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1891: Ice skating at Cuckfield
Skaters have had a grand time of it this year, and Brightonians, as may be supposed, have not been behindhand in availing themselves of...
Apr 19, 20211 min read
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1938: The myths and legends of old Cuckfield and a rambler's route from Horsham to the town.
West Sussex County Times - Friday 22 July 1938 PICTURESQUE WEST SUSSEX AND ITS BORDERS No.7 ROUTES FOR THE RAMBLER CUCKFIELD Cuckfield,...
Apr 9, 202112 min read
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Cuckfield featured in and launched Shelley's career: New York Public Library
Thanks to detective work by Elizabeth Denlinger of the New York Public Library, Cuckfield Connections has learned for the first time that...
Apr 8, 202111 min read
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1921: Cuckfield Motor Works ablaze
Sussex Agricultural Express - Friday 29 April 1921 FIRE AT CUCKFIELD MOTOR WORKS. On Tuesday afternoon great excitement prevailed in...
Mar 28, 20211 min read
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1805: Trafalgar hero living in the High Street
For about seven years a national naval hero, Captain John Pilfold, lived in Cuckfield High Street and regularly welcomed one of the...
Mar 26, 20214 min read
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1971: In celebration of Cuckfield Park, built 400 years ago....
Cuckfield Park’s 400th Anniversary Long before the appearance of the first man the land now known as Cuckfield Park formed part of the...
Mar 23, 20218 min read
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1775-1803...a fact you may not know about Cuckfield
Nearly 250 years of Sun Fire Insurance This plaque above Ockenden Cottage doorway is the fire mark of the Sun Insurance Co. They had...
Mar 19, 20211 min read
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