Cuckfield Connections

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 03 October 1933 THE LATE MISS EDITH ANNIE PAYNE: CUCKFIELD PARTICULARS OF HER GIFT TO THE URBAN COUNCIL...

West Sussex Gazette - Thursday 24 January 1929 DEATH OF MR. W. HERRINGTON. Older residents have learned with much regret of the death of...

Angela Fox, Ockenden Cottage. Cuckfield, was fined £1 for for causing an unobscured light to show from a window of her house during the...

Mid Sussex Times- Tuesday 20 May 1913 A POLICE CONSTABLE’S 'LAST BEAT' A familiar figure of authority on the streets of Cuckfield has...

This charming story about an old couple celebrating their diamond wedding in Burgess Hill is wide ranging in its subject matter and...

Mr Wilbraham Villiers Cooper, OBE, died yesterday at his home in London at the age of 79. Born in 1876, he received his early schooling...

Sir, The acronym is the darling of our age. One wonders how, compressed into their unpronounceable initials, such backward bodies as the...

Mid Sussex times Tuesday 15th July 1890 death of doctor T S BYASS Today it is our painful duty to record the death, on Sunday morning, of...

Mid Sussex Times – Tuesday 19 March 1929 MID SUSSEX POLICE CHANGES CUCKFIELD CONSTABLE’S RETIREMENT A well known uniformed figure has...

“A letter arrived in May which sent me to Psalm 46:10” – Mary Corbishley’s Oral School at Cuckfield House (1937-48) By H Dominic W...

An account of travels through Sussex with Sir William Burrell by Francis Grose in May 1777 Following a visit by Sussex Historic Churches...

1947: What they wrote about Cuckfield – Arthur Mee ‘Sussex’ (Arthur Mee 1947) Cuckfield stands 400 feet high on the Forest Ridge, and has...

These few words taken from an article of a talk given by Canon Cooper in 1912 sends shivers down the spine - and no - do not endeavour to...

West Sussex County Times, Saturday 5 November 1927 The Coverts of Slaugham Place The following is a paper read by Miss E. Kensett on the...

The following interesting story is told in an English paper, the incident on which it is founded having occurred at Cuckfield: A lady was...

Worthing Herald - Saturday 22 February 1936 Andrew Borde ‘AN INTERESTING AND CURIOUS CHARACTER' The original “Merry Andrew” Andrew Borde...

You couldn't accuse Timothy Burrell of breaking any social contract when it came to employing William Gates as a footman at Ockenden...

We are 30 years on from the Cuckfield 900 celebrations in 1992. To mark the centennial occasion this story in verse of the village...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 15 August 1933 CUCKFIELD MOURNS A GREAT LOSS. Striking Tributes at the Funeral of Miss E. A. Payne The funeral...

The southern part of the village adds a lot of charm and character as the road winds its way through to the High Street. This area,...