View looking north through 'new' Cooksbridge

The school was built in 1907 to replace the old schoolhouse at Offham.

The development of 'new' Cooksbridge

A year after the construction of the Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway in 1846 a line was built between Lewes and Keymer Junction, linking up with the London/Brighton line just south of Wivelsfield. With this new line crossing the parish and intersecting the A275 at Cooksbridge the opportunity arose to build a station. Thus developed 'new' Cooksbridge. Chatfield's, the timber merchants, moved their main depot from Lewes to Cooksbridge in 1882, and it remains as a timberyard today.

Downsview Cottages were built in the 1920s and Chandler's Mead in the 1950s. The new houses in Malthouse Way were built in the late 1990s.

Tithe Data

198 Chandler's Mead
(new houses built since 1940s)

1841 Census

Tenement Analysis

Buildings

Archaeology

Old Maps

Further Information