A-Z Challenge 2025: Reflections It was a case of “Once more unto the breach” and before I knew it I had planned to take part in the #AtoZChallenge for a second time.  Again...

And it's a wrap ....my Reflections blog posting for the #AtoZChallenge2025 is published. #OnePlaceATOZ Thanks to those who have followed along. cuckfieldcompendium.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-z-...

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We did it! Thanks for all your encouragement and for being my #OnePlaceAtoZ #OnePlaceStudy buddy!

Zeppelin and Red Poll cattle A Red Poll BullPhoto by Gail Hampshire, this file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. It’s the last day of the 2025 A to Z Blogging Challenge! Well – except for …

My last post for the 2025 #AtoZchallenge! After a last minute change of plan when i discovered that Gothas were responsible for a bombing raid & not Zeppelins, Ifound an alternative candidate for Z #OnePlaceWednesday
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Blogging and Social Media Prompts. April 2025: #OnePlaceAToZ. Image: Photo looking down on the buildings on the edge of a small settlement, with fields and trees beyond. Superimposed on this is the logo for the 2025 A to Z blogging challenge, and "A to Z" in large letters with splashes of colour. www.one-place-studies.org/blogging-prompts/ One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

As April ends, so does the 2025 #AToZChallenge and our #OnePlaceStudies blogging prompt for the month, #OnePlaceAToZ. Congrats to our OPS bloggers who have combined the two – check out their posts for:

✪ Cuckfield🔗
✪ Loughborough🔗
✪ Sudbourne🔗

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A-Z Challenge 2025: April 30th : Z for Zigzagging We have zigzagged across a lot of topics during this #AtoZChallenge to find people who have connections with Cuckfield and we have finally r...

And so to the end: Z for Zigzagging. I have covered lots of different aspects of people's lives and buildings connected to Cuckfield. What better way to end than with people whose name begins with Z. #AtoZChallenge2025 #OnePlaceATOZ cuckfieldcompendium.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-z-...

YouTube My entry for the letter Y in the A to Z blogging challenge isn’t so much of a blog, more a sharing of links of some of my favourite Sudbourne and/or Suffolk YouTube videos and creators. A picture p…

Here is today's #OnePlaceAtoZ post for 'Y' - YouTube
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XY – Situations Wanted I think most people who participate in the A to Z blogging challenge find X one of the most difficult letters to title a post with – but I knew immediately what my topic would be for this challengi…

Just realised that although my 'X' post went live on my website yesterday, I didn't share it on here! So here it is - 'XY - Situations Wanted'
#OnePlaceAtoZ
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A-Z Challenge 2025: April 28th: X for X marks on documents I was viewing the online parish register images at Familysearch and have transcribed these as an example of who signed with an "X". Marriage...

We are on the final countdown now for the #AtoZChallenge2025 and have reached the letter X ... for instances of register images that have been signed with a cross. #OnePlaceATOZ cuckfieldcompendium.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-z-...

also tagging #OnePlaceATOZ

A-Z Challenge 2025: April 26th : W for White Harte The White Harte is an inn on the corner of South Street in Cuckfield. Parts of the White Harte have been dated at the beginning of the 13th ...

Time for a well deserved drink at the end of the week so let's visit the W for White Harte in Cuckfield for the #AtoZChallenge . I wonder who mine host will be. #OnePlaceATOZ cuckfieldcompendium.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-z-...

Villages nearby The area covered by the Sudbourne Estate A modern map showing parish boundaries Today’s A to Z alphabet blogging challenge letter is V. As I’m using the A to Z alphabet challenge to int…

V for Villages Nearby is the topic for today's #AtoZchallenge post! A very brief summary of #Aldeburgh, #Iken, #Chillesford, #Gedgrave and #Orford #OnePlaceAtoZ
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A-Z Challenge 2025: April 25th : V for Volunteers Taken from the Mid Sussex Times, 16 July 1869 The following gentlemen (Second Lieutenants) were on Tuesday gazetted as Lieutenants in the 2n...

#AtoZChallenge2025 V for volunteers. Life can't live without volunteers, you see them in all walks of life. This post is excerpts about the Cuckfield Volunteer Batalions of the Royal Sussex Regiment #OnePlaceATOZ cuckfieldcompendium.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-z-...

Union Today’s letter in the A-Z blogging challenge is U. This post is about the celebration of a union – the silver wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Arthur Heywood, of Sudbourne Hall. The fo…

My submission for the letter U in the #AtoZchallenge is union - a celebration of a union, that is. An interesting news report on the gifts given by #Sudbourne residents to the landowner & his wife for their silver wedding anniversary #OnePlaceAtoZ

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A-Z Challenge 2025: April 24th : U for Union Workhouse Some newspaper articles mentioning names of people and the Workhouse. Sussex Advertiser 26 February 1883 Ten young tramps, James Wood, Henr...

U for the Union Workhouse in Cuckfield ...... articles from newspapers rather than the history. #AtoZChallenge2025 #OnePlaceATOZ cuckfieldcompendium.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-z-...

I posted a link to my #Sudbourne #OnePlaceAtoZ blog in a Facebook group & appealed for memories and photos. A lovely lady has sent me 15 photos of a shop and residents, all with names, dated 1923! I’m overjoyed! #OnePlaceWednesday

A-Z Challenge 2025: April 23rd : T for Tentercroft Tentercroft in Broad Street is a large Victorian building situated to the north of Broad Street, opposite the car park in the centre of Cuck...

My #AtoZChallenge2025 post is not about Much Binding in the Marsh but about Cuckfield. To be more precise it is T for Tentercroft but I am sure you will see the connection to Much Binding in then Marsh #OnePlaceATOZ cuckfieldcompendium.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-z-...

A-Z Challenge 2025: April 22nd: S for Schooling Early Schooling in Cuckfield. The founder of the first school in Cuckfield, a Free Grammar School, was Edmund Flower.   In his will of 1521 ...

#AtoZChallenge2025 My blog post challenge yesterday was the letter S and so I wrote a snippet about early schooling in Cuckfield. #OnePlaceATOZ cuckfieldcompendium.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-z-...

The building of Sudbourne School On 20th December 1870, a group of men from the Sudbourne and Orford area submitted an application for assistance to the Lords of the Committee of the Council of Education for building Sudbourne Sch…

Today’s #AtoZchallenge post is S for school. In this post I tell the story of how #Sudbourne school came to be built
#OnePlaceAtoZ

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Regional words and sayings Can you think of any regional or Suffolk sayings? The examples I’ve given here won’t be unique to Sudbourne but I am sure that Sudbourne residents would have said them. Here are some Su…

I had family over for lunch yesterday & although I’d scheduled my #AtoZchallenge R post (those of you who subscribe by email will have received it), I completely forgot to share it on here! R is for Regional Sayings
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A-Z Challenge 2025: April 21st : R for The Rose and Crown The Rose & Crown  public House is a listed building and the entry on Historic England's website is:   TQ 32 NW CUCKFIELD LONDON ROAD 1/71 Th...

R ........ Todays post is a bit about the Rose and Crown public House in Cuckfield. #AToZChallenge2025 #OnePlaceATOZ
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A-Z Challenge 2025: April 19th : Q for Quassilarius Quassilarius is an  old occupation which in more recent times is called pedlars & hawkers. 1861 Census Charles Atfield , Head, aged 25, Lice...

Let's end the week with H for...hilarious.......oh sorry, Q for Quasilarious #AtoZChallenge2025 #OnePlaceATOZ

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Quiz Today’s A to Z blogging challenge letter is Q. Not the easiest letter to write about! so I thought I’d sent you a quiz… 1: Which villages adjoin Sudbourne? Blaxhall, Aldeburgh, Or…

Today’s #AtoZchallenge letter is Q, so I’ve devised a quiz about #Sudbourne
#OnePlaceAtoZ

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Population I have compiled these numbers for the population of Sudbourne from FindMyPast, Histpop, and information in the Sudbourne survey of churchyard and monumental inscriptions: 1086 501327 26 tax payers1…

Today is letter P of the #AtoZchallenge. I’ve taken a very brief look at population figures for #Sudbourne. A subject to be revisited and dealt with in much more depth at a later date.
#OnePlaceAtoZ

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A-Z Challenge 2025: April 18th : P for Post Master/Mistress Postmaster/Postmistress at the Cuckfield Post Office 1841 Samuel Mitchell, aged 65, Postmaster 1851 Samuel Mitchell, Head, aged 75, Postmas...

P for Postmaster/Mistress Post Offices are precious to many villages and sadly now find it hard to survive. Once they were the hub of the village. Cuckfield Postmasters were keen to keep it in the family where possible #AtoZChallenge #OnePlaceATOZ cuckfieldcompendium.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-z-...

Oldest resident Today’s letter in the A to Z Alphabet Challenge is ‘O’. So I thought for a bit of fun, I would take a quick look at a man who was described as being Sudbourne’s oldest resident, and his wife, who a…

For the letter O of the #AtoZchallenge, I’ve done a bit of research into a man who, when he died, was the oldest resident in #Sudbourne - and I am certain his wife later beat his record! #OnePlaceAtoZ

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A-Z Challenge 2025: April 17th : O for Obituaries From the Mid Sussex Times A very flowery style of reporting here on Sept 8th, 1885:  During the past few days the scythe of death has been m...

O for Obituaries and some of these make for very amusing reading. #AtoZChallenge #OnePlaceATOZ cuckfieldcompendium.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-z-...

A-Z Challenge 2025: April 16th: N for Nurse Nurse Mary Stoner was known lovingly as the "Mother of Cuckfield".    Born in 1855 in a cottage in  Mytten Twitten.  The family moved away w...

N is for ..... nurse, in this case someone who was lovingly called Mother of Cuckfield. #AtoZChallenge #OnePlaceATOZ cuckfieldcompendium.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-z-...

Notebook The notebook – it’s A5 size A couple of years ago, when I first became interested in researching the history of the village of Sudbourne, as opposed to my own ancestors, I did what most…

In today’s #OnePlaceAtoZ, I tell you about a notebook I bought which has a strong #Sudbourne connection, & who I think might have compiled it
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Blogging and Social Media Prompts. April 2025: #OnePlaceAToZ. Image: Photo looking down on the buildings on the edge of a small settlement, with fields and trees beyond. Superimposed on this is the logo for the 2025 A to Z blogging challenge, and "A to Z" in large letters with splashes of colour. www.one-place-studies.org/blogging-prompts/ One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

A #OnePlaceWednesday reminder that our blogging and social media prompt🔗 for April, inspired by the #AToZChallenge, is #OnePlaceAToZ. Possibilities range from 26 blog posts to a short series of posts (or even just one!) tackling an A to Z of people, features or themes connected your place.

Marshes The marsh behind Sudbourne BeachPart of the extensive Lantern Marsh area of the Orford Ness NNR; Home Reach of the River Alde lies beyond the next strip of land, with Sudbourne Marshes beyond that.…

I’m halfway through the #AtoZchallenge! Today’s letter is M, so here’s a brief introduction to #Sudbourne’s marshes
#OnePlaceAtoZ

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