Cuckfield Connections

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 10 January 1893 PETTY SESSIONS - HAYWARDS HEATH ______________ FRIDAY Before General Leigh Pemberton C.B. AN...

On Thursday Mr Constable, of the firm of Messrs. Constable, the well-known carting contractors., met his death in a strange and sudden...

A sad and fatal accident occurred on Monday evening last to a man named Hayes. from Maidstone, at Ansty, a little village situated about...

Sussex Advertiser - Wednesday 25 July 1866 CUCKFIELD. A Little Bit of Romance. On Friday evening, about nine o'clock, a fly arrived at...

The Sussex World has claimed that Cuckfield’s White Harte Inn is occasionally reported to have a ghost. So Cuckfield Connections has been...

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

Old Sergeant's Memories In a quiet Sussex village a gallant old hero is spending the remainder of his days in such peace as rheumatism...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 12 September 1893 A CUCKFIELD PUBLICAN IN TROUBLE. At the Haywards Heath Petty Sessions yesterday (Monday),...

London's Queensland Colony flocked to the Holy Trinity Church at Cuckfield, Sattex, yesterday, for the marriage of popular ‘Sandy’...

Cuckfield-born Thomas Owden, in his office as Lord Mayor of London managed to bring together the country’s two leading politicians after...

This Timeline is the first known attempt to collate the key dates and events relating to the coaching period and development of Cuckfield...

Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 05 October 1889 THE WHEATSHEAF BEERHOUSE, CUCKFIELD. Mr. Marshall Hall appeared in support of an...

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...

In this second part of the Sir Thomas Owden story we will learn about the Owden family and discover why Thomas moved to London and we...

We have just discovered that Cuckfield was the birthplace of a Lord Mayor of London who became a highly influential and respected...

This fascinating information was supplied by Mrs Joan A Freeman* formerly of Hove in June 1981 to Peter Holtham of the Sussex...

Jack Norris who is now 85 and lives in Burgess Hill has many happy memories of his time living in Cuckfield for some 20 years (until...

Is the Rose and Crown haunted by a sailor and a lady singing? This story lists the strange goings on there. A couple of miles down the...

Sussex author Thurston Hopkins in his book 'The Lure of Sussex', makes some observations about the Sergison Arms and Muster Green which...

In 1810 a new and more direct road [London to Brighton] was made - reducing the distance to 54 miles - via Preston, Cuckfield, Crawley,...