CUCKFIELD RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL

PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES

RD/CU/1 Minutes of Council meetings, 1872-1974.

RD/CU/8 Byelaws and Sealed Orders, 1939-1962

ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL DEPARTMENT

RD/CU/16 Plans deposited for approval under local byelaws, 1882-1948.

RD/CU/18 Registers of plans deposited for approval under local byelaws, 1882-1961.

RD/CU/19 Registers of plans deposited under planning regulations, 1946-1952.

RD/CU/24 Miscellaneous, 1909-1955.

FINANCE

RD/CU/30 General and housing ledgers, 1895-1974.

RD/CU/31 Stastical and financial statement, 1933-1938.

RD/CU/34 Valuation Lists, 1934-1969.

RD/CU/41 Records of wages and salaries, 1927-1964.

RD/CU/43 Registers of loans and mortgages, raised, 1870-1955.

RD/CU/44 Loans ledgers, 1893-1959.

RD/CU/45 Advances to the public under the Small Dwellings Acquisition Acts, 1947-1968.

RD/CU/47 Loans miscellaneous, 1943-1973.

COUNCIL HOUSING

RD/CU/52 Miscellaneous, 1925-1937.

MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH

RD/CU/57 Annual Reports, 1894-1972.

PUBLIC HEALTH INSPECTOR

RD/CU/59A Reports to the Council, 1948-1973.

RD/CU/61 Registers, 1933-1972.

RECORDS OF SPECIAL STATUTORY AUTHORITIES

RD/CU/66 Hurstpierpoint Special Drainage District

Deposited by Mid Sussex District Council between 1975 and 1983.

A Rural Sanitary Authority was formed for Cuckfield Union in 1872 under the Public Health Act of that year. In 1895 the Rural Sanitary Authority became a Rural District Council under the terms of the Local Government Acts of 1894.

Many of the Orders affecting boundary changes in Cuckfield R.D.C. form part of the East Sussex County Council Records and these Orders have been listed below with their East Sussex Record Office reference numbers. These Orders have also been copied and are available in the West Sussex Record Office series of Miscellaneous Papers, these reference numbers also being listed below:

1. East Sussex (Fulking and Poynings) Confirmation Order, 1928 which came into effect on 1 April 1928. (E.S.R.O. C/C45/3 no. 73; W.S.R.O. MP 1998)

2. East Sussex Review Order, 1934 which came into effect on 1 April 1934. (E.S.R.O. C/C45/4 no.18; W.S.R.O. MP 1999)

3. East Sussex (Horsted Keynes and West Hoathly parishes) Confirmation Order, 1935 which came into effect on 1 April 1936. (E.S.R.O. C/C45/5 no. 85 W.S.R.O. MP 2000)

4. County of East Sussex (Parishes of Cuckfield Rural, Balcombe and Slaugham) Confirmation Order, 1957 which came into effect on 1 April 1957. (E.S.R.O. C/C45/10 no. 22B; W.S.R.O. MP 2001)

5. East Sussex (Parishes of West Hoathly and Worth) Confirmation Order, 1958 which came into effect on 1 April 1958. (E.S.R.O. C/C45/10 no. 25; W.S.R.O. MP 2002)

The major changes in Parish boundaries have been summaried below. The figure in brackets refers to the appropriate Order listed above.

Albourne: 1907, transferred from West Sussex to East Sussex, see Counties of East and West Sussex (Albourne) Order, 1907.

Ardingly: 1934, detached part of Ardingly added to Balcombe. (2)

Balcombe: 1934, detached part of Ardingly added to Balcombe. (2)

1957, part of Cuckfield Rural added to Balcombe. (4)

Bolney: 1934, detached part of Hurstpierpoint added to Bolney. (2)

Clayton: 1934, part of Clayton transferred to Burgess Hill Urban District. (2)

1934, detached part of Clayton added to Cuckfield Rural. (2)

Cowfold: 1896, transferred from Cuckfield Rural District to Horsham Rural District. See W.S.R.O. MP 1348.

Cuckfield Rural: 1934, part of Cuckfield Rural transferred to Cuckfield Urban District. (2)

1934, part of Balcombe, Lindfield, Clayton and Keymer added to Cuckfield Rural. (2)

1957, parts of Cuckfield Rural added to Balcombe and Slaugham. (4)

Fulking: 1894, part of Edburton in East Sussex became a separate parish called Fulking, see the East and West Sussex (Edburton) Confirmation Order, 1894. (W.S.R.O. County Council Records WOC/CC6/7).

1928, transferred from Steyning East Rural District to Cuckfield Rural District. (1

West Hoathly; 1934, transferred from East Grinstead Rural District to Cuckfield Rural District. (2)

1936, part of Horsted Keynes added to West Hoathly and part of West Hoathly added to Horsted Keynes. (3)

1958, part of West Hoathly added to Worth. (5)

Horsted Keynes: 1936, part of Horsted Keynes added to West Hoathly and part of West Hoathly added to Horsted Keynes. (3)

Hurstpierpoint: 1934, part of Hurstpierpoint added to Bolney. (2)

Keymer: 1934, detached part of Keymer transferred to Haywards Heath Urban District. (2)

1934, detached part of Keymer added to Cuckfield Rural. (2)

Lindfield Rural: 1934, part of Lindfield added to Cuckfield Rural. (2)

Newtimber: nil

Poynings: 1928, transferred from Steyning East Rural District to Cuckfield Rural District. (1)

Pyecombe: nil

Slaugham: 1957, part of Cuckfield added to Slaugham. (4)

Twineham: nil

Worth: 1934, transferred from East Grinstead Rural District to Cuckfield Rural District. (2)

1958, part of West Hoathly added to Worth. (5)