Cuckfield Connections

Accident. — On Tuesday evening, 18th inst., some children were playing on the road at Broad Street as one of Mr. Callow’s flys, from the...

Mid Sussex Times - Wednesday 19 October 1881 Miraculous Escape. —Shortly after ten o’clock on Friday night a serious accident happened in...

Golden Cross, Charing Cross, general traffic for travelling. Brighton and Lewes Original Coaches set out every morning at Seven o'clock...

Coaching on the historic route from London to Brighton will be revived to-day, when at 10.30 a.m., the Old Berkeley stage coach will ...

The Prince Regent travelled over the new road (from Gatton Lodge, near Reigate), by way of Povey Cross, Crawley, and Hickstead, to...

Sussex Advertiser - Saturday 30 March 1867 ANNUAL LADY-TIDE PAROCHIAL MEETING AT CUCKFIELD. The usual nomination of Overseers took place...

As Mr Joseph Jeffreys, timber-merchant, Cuckfield Sussex, was returning home from Brighton market on Thursday evening last, between...

Sussex Advertiser - Monday 26 July 1819 Turnpike Tolls to be Lett. WHEREAS at a Meeting of the Trustees of the Turnpike Road leading from...

SUSSEX ADVERTISER – Saturday 27 April 1867 CUCKFIELD The stagecoaches. Quite a new feature has sprung up on this road, at least to those...

Hampshire Telegraph – Saturday May 1st 1875 SMASHING A TURNPIKE GATE WITH A LOCOMOTIVE STEAM ENGINE At the petty sessions, on Monday,...

Sir, Having attempted a short notice of the journey to Sevenoaks last week, I now come to a short description of the Brighton coach,...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 29 November 1938 COLLISION AT A BEND—CUCKFIELD. Harry Humm Holley, whose address was given as “The Financial...

by Lynn Atterebury The Brighton coach coming down Cuckfield Hill. from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 22 August 1874. The...

BRIGHTON GAZETTE —THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1867 STATE OF THE CUCKFIELD ROADS. The usual nomination of Overseers took place on Monday...

As late as the 1870's an observer reported 'roads being mended with the plough, the mire being turned up on the side to dry whilst a new...

Many, and interesting, are the tales told of the Brighton-road, which always has been held in high favour by coachmen. In olden times,...

THE ABERDARE TIMES JULY 21 1888 COACHING EXTRAORDINARY. A REMARKABLE DRIVE. On Friday morning of last week the Old Times Brighton coach...

The following is from Rowlandson's 'Sketches on the Road' 1789 In 1789 Brighton was still known as Brighthelmstone, nearly as it had been...

How the Talbot suddenly took off to become a serious rival to the King's Head in Cuckfield has long been a mystery. But now some records...

It's perhaps surprising to learn that Brighton northbound bus stops have virtually remained unchanged from the ones used by stage coaches...