Cuckfield is a village and civil parish in West Sussex, England, on the southern slopes of the Weald. It lies 34 miles [55 km] south of London, 13 miles [21 km] north of Brighton, and 31 miles [50 km] east northeast of the county town of Chichester.
Nearby towns include Haywards Heath to the southeast and Burgess Hill to the south. It is surrounded on the other sides by the parish of Ansty and Staplefield.
The village grew as a market town; and an important coaching stop between London and Brighton, since it lay on the turnpike.
In 1820, 50 coaches a day passed through; but when the London - Brighton railway was to be constructed in the 1840s, local landowners objected to its projected route: it therefore went through Haywards Heath instead. The village lost its importance as a result.
In 1822, Mary Ann Mantell, wife of Gideon Mantell, found the first Iguanodon fossils in a quarry at Whitemans Green, a monument is there though the quarry is long gone.
 
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