Cuckfield, Sussex Poor Law Union

History
The poor law union of Cuckfield comprises 15 parishes or places, and contains a population of 17,132.

A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 742-746. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50909 Date accessed: 09 May 2011.

Cuckfield and other parishes had workhouses. The Cuckfield Poor Law Union was formed on 26 March 1835 and until the 1843 opening of a new Workhouse continued to occupy the houses at Cuckfield Ardingley, Bolney, Cowfold, Hurstpierpoint, Lindfield and New Timber.

For more information on the history of the workhouse, see Peter Higginbotham's web site: www.workhouses.org.uk and http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Cuckfield/Cuckfield.shtml

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Constituent parishes
Albourne, Sussex Ardingly, Sussex Balcombe, Sussex Bolney, Sussex Clayton with Keymer, Sussex Cowfold, Sussex Cuckfield, Sussex Danehill, Sussex Horsted Keynes, Sussex Hurstpierpoint, Sussex Lindfield, Sussex Newtimber, Sussex Pyecombe, Sussex Slaugham, Sussex Staplefield Common, Sussex Twineham, Sussex