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View looking north through 'new' Cooksbridge |
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H203 (Friendly Hall) stood in what is today Covers Timberyard, immediately south of Wellington House. Wellington House (Four Winds) was built between 1871-1881, Elm Cottage between 1881-1891 and the remainder after 1901. |
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The development of 'new' Cooksbridge |
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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. The Station Hotel first mentions an occupant, Adam Oram, inn keeper and coal dealer in 1861 (Census). Over the next 30 years there were a succession of occupants: Thomas Oden, 1862; George Stevenson, 1871; James Boniface, 1878; William Orchard, 1881; William Green, 1887; Edward Brooks, 1913. (Census & Kelly's). There were also a succession of Station Clerks/Masters: Richard Strivett, 1851; Alfred Paver, 1871; William Mullinger, 1881; Stephen Neeves, 1887; Richard Henley, 1891. (Census & Kelly's). Chatfield's, the timber merchants, moved their main depot from Lewes to Cooksbridge in 1882, and it remains as a timberyard today. |
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Hounds meet at The Station Hotel, early 1900s |
©2007 Sussex Archaeological Society
