1813: Downton meets Cuckfield
Morning Post - Saturday 09 October 1813 Contributed by Malcolm Davison.
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Cuckfield Connections
A personal journey of discovery
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1873: Bear's bullocks and fair pleasure
The Pleasure Fair on Tuesday was but the ghost of former days, the visitors and amusements being equally scanty. Cheap Jack, with his...
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1936: Footway to Ansty proposed
Having considered letters from the Women’s Section of the Cuckfield Labour Party and the Cuckfield Urban District Council suggesting a...
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1944: Bronze Age weapon found in Cuckfield Garden
Mid Sussex Times - Wednesday 24 May 1944 1000 B.C. DISCOVERY AT CUCKFIELD DUG UP IN A GARDEN By the courtesy of Mr H. Taylor, F. R.C.V.S....
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1910: Underpaid 17 year old drowns
On Saturday an inquest was held at Cuckfield, Sussex, on Helen Holmes, aged seventeen, who was found drowned in CuckfieldPark by an...
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2005: ... further abroad than expected on a visit to the 'beautiful village' of Cuckfield
'Another country'....' John Stephen delves into the history of a beautiful Sussex village - and finds he has travelled further abroad...
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1797: Cuckfield man undertakes an unusual wager...
Hampshire Chronicle - Saturday 07 January 1797 A man of Cuckfield, a flax dresser by profession, has undertaken, for a trifling wager, to...
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1877: Narrow escape of three year old in Cuckfield
Sussex Agricultural Express - Tuesday 11 September 1877 CUCKFIELD. ALMOST AN ACCIDENT Mr H Neville, fly proprietor of this town, whose...
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1834: Ainsworth features Cuckfield Park
In 1831, 26 year old William Harrison Ainsworth, an amateur dramatist and practising attorney, transformed Cuckfield Place owned by his...
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1786: Plague of insects destroys Cuckfield oak trees
Reading Mercury - Monday 12 June 1786 Most of the oak trees in the neighbourhood of Cuckfield and Horsham, have been lately covered with...
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1868: Mystery illness to Cuckfield wife blamed on witchcraft
Belfast Morning News - Wednesday 19 August 1868 Witchcraft Service.—The Sussex Advertiser tells a story of pretended witchcraft, which...
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1867: The challenges of maintaining Cuckfield roads after the abolition of turnpike gates
BRIGHTON GAZETTE—THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1867. STATE OF THE CUCKFIELD ROADS. The usual nomination of Overseers took place on Monday...
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1873: Frightful Gun Accident at Cuckfield
Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 19 April 1873 A most melancholy and fatal gun accident occurred at Cuckfield on Easter...
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1788: Cuckfield widow makes fatal leap from second floor window to escape household fire
Stamford Mercury - Friday 20 June 1788 Last Sunday evening the following melancholy circumstance happened at the house of Mrs Bell, a...
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1892: An amusing election incident
Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 19 July 1892. At one time Cuckfield was part of the East Grinstead constituency for Parliament. This story...
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1945: Cathedral of Mid Sussex
Sussex Agricultural Express - Friday 12 January 1945 Many interesting historic facts and anecdotes were mentioned by Mrs MA Clowes, of...
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1935: Further comment on Cuckfield Noise Pollution
Here is the original complaint: Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 26 November 1935 NOISE AT CUCKFIELD. To the Editor of The Mid-Sussex Times....
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1885: Valuable carrier pigeons attacked by a dog at Whiteman's Green
West Sussex County Times - Saturday 21 March 1885 CUCKFIELD. PIGEONS DESTROYED BY A DOG.—A man named James Box, residing at Whiteman's...
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1837: Rabid dog runs amok in Cuckfield
Brighton Gazette - Thursday 01 June 1837 On Friday last a dog passed through this place in a highly rapid state, and bit several of the...
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1859: Cuckfield residents 'hourly threatened with being burnt out of their house and home.'
Sussex Advertiser - Tuesday 15 March 1859 CUCKFIELD. Fire.— About noon on Tuesday a fire broke out on Pilstye farm, about three miles...
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