Cooksbridge
| Cooksbridge | |
| Sussex | |
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 Cooksbridge House | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ400134 |
| Location: | 50°54’13"N, 0°-0’34"W |
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| Postcode: | BN8 |
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Cooksbridge is a little village Sussex, centred on Cooksbridge railway station.
It has a primary school and a pub, the Rainbow.
The name 'Cooksbridge' is first recorded in 1590 and is likely to have come from a family of that name who were recorded in neibouring Hamsey in 1543. However, in folklore the village got its name from the cooks who fed the soldiers of Simon de Montfort from the bridge on their way to the Battle of Lewes in 1264. The troops came from nearby Fletching where they spent the night in prayer on their way to the defeat of Henry III.
In the 18th and 19th century, the road was under the control of the Offham to Wych Cross Turnpike Trust. With the coming of the railway to Cooksbridge in 1847 the trustees, no doubt concerned by the increase in traffic that the station might generate, agreed to establish a turnpike (toll road) at Cooksbridge at its meeting in Lewes on the 12 Oct 1847. It was erected adjacent to Friendly Hall.[1]
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References
- ↑ The Sussex Advertiser 28 Sep 1847.
