Cuckfield Connections

Not many people know that the lime tree avenue at Cuckfield Park once extended over the Cuckfield village / Ansty road and across the...

Dear Sir, I was very interested in reading your account of Mrs. Sergison. I should like to know if there is any truth in the legend that...

Willam Crick was a well known evangelist who travelled widely in Mid Sussex. Cuckfield was his home for several years, and also where he...

We regret to record the death of another old and respected townsman who studied art in its severest sense and was one of the earliest...

West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 8 August 1912 On Thursday night the Cuckfield Urban District Council agreed to accept an offer made by...

Another Monday wedding is Miss Edith Stephenson. Clarke's, the fortunate man being Mr Cyril Winthrop Mackworth-Praed, a gallant Scots...

Sussex Journal: Through Croydon, Godstone, East-Grinstead, and Uckfield, to Lewes, and Brighton; Returning by Cuckfield, Worth and...

KNIGHT After a long period of failing health the death occurred late on Sunday of Mr Stephen Knight, Brocketts Whiteman’s Green. Both his...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 08 April 1930 Admirers of Henry Kingsley, the well known novelist, will be gratified to learn that steps are...

With a name like Joseph Rubido, a working life which has taken in such places as poshest Cuckfield and even posher Bruton Place, W1, my...

Cuckfield ‘Universal sympathy with the bereaved family of Sir Charles Lennox Peel’ Gentlewoman , 26 August 1899 . [Died 19 August 1899]...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 09 June 1914 THE LATE MR. SILVESTER HORNE, MP. To the Editor of The Mid-Sussex Times. Dear Sir,—All the world...

Brighton Gazette - Wednesday 17 July 1912 Mr. R. A. Bevan’s Birthday. Mr. R. A. Bevan, J.P., of Horsgate, Cuckfield, reached his 78th...

Brighton Gazette - Thursday 28 May 1868 CUCKFIELD. Sudden Death of Warden Sergison, Esq. On Friday last, Mr Sergison, the highly...

Brighton Gazette - Wednesday 03 July 1912 LATE MR. T. BANNISTER. Well-Known Mid-Sussex Auctioneer. A notable Mid-Sussex figure has been...

Mademoiselle Florence was bet $2500 she could not walk from London to Brighton in 6 days - she not only managed it but did much better...

The news cutting above is intriguing. We can confirm that records show that Elizabeth M Wadstein lived at Ridgecote, Copyhold Lane in...

Many thanks to Mike Anton for researching and providing this fascinating story about the earliest days of the Railways at Haywards...

STORIES OF HENRY KINGSLEY A lady, who as a child lived with her mother opposite the Kingsley’s house in Cuckfield, and her husband, Mr....

Airey Neave was an extraordinary individual but defined by his untimely at the Houses of Parliament by a bomb placed under his car. The...