Cuckfield Connections

Those who were living in the village in the 1960s to 80s will fondly remember Cuckfield’s famous resident humorist Basil Boothroyd who...

A windmill stands for the 'old times'; it is a monument to many things which have vanished from country life for ever. The windmill was...

Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 11 September 1923 CUCKFIELD PARISH CHURCH: TWO ANCIENT WINDOWS In the September issue of the Cuckfield Parish...

Cuckfield owed much of its wealth and prominence through its importance as stopping place for coaches. The road was improved - and the...

Lord Denning is described as ‘the law student’s favourite’ judge - a model of clarity. He was on the side of the ‘underdog’ and was known...

This item appeared in Mid Sussex Times on 10 June 1902, and gives an interesting snapshot of the village life in both Cuckfield and...

HALLOWEEN: “WHERE THERE IS NO IMAGINATION, THERE IS NO HORROR” – ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The following verse, published during Christmas 1916,...

Some of the last coaches to run on the London Brighton road through Cuckfield were the night mail coaches. Here is a personal account of...

For some children it may have been an exciting adventure, for others evacuation from London at the time of the Blitz in September 1939...

Writing in in the mid 1850s, Samuel Shergold, observed that coach travellers were more likely to find love on a stage coach rather than...

We learn from the Gentleman’s Magazine, dated May 1842, that Admiral Sir John Wells, GCB after 65 years in the navy died at his home,...

For so many years Cuckfield was associated with the wonderful deaf school run by Mary Stephens Corbishley MBE. Initially it was located...

Not many people are aware that Cuckfield could have been right at the centre of a defensive front line to resist Napoleon’s invasion...

A verger who helped prevent a church from being destroyed by fire was remembered in 2017 for his heroics 100 years on. Alfred Browne was...

Timothy Burrell kept a set of account diaries which give a fascinating insight into the daily life of a wealthy land-owning Sussex squire...

This is 1500 words of a 9000 word poem from a book called “Mrs Funnell” and concerns her visit to Cuckfield Fair. She was on a mission...

In a delightful book called ‘The Lure of Sussex’, Thurston Hopkins records several of his walks around Sussex in the late 1920s. There is...

Cuckfield was the location of the landing of a pioneering gas balloon flight in 2 June 1824 by balloonist George Graham accompanied by...

Although this is not an easy read, due to its archaic eccentric wording, this chapter from one of Twynihoe William Erle’s books ‘The...

A traditional story handed down through generations tries to explain the origin of the name Whiteman's Green. When Cuckfield Church was...