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Rotherfield and Mark Cross railway station

railway station in Rotherfield, the UK

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ7370418 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rotherfield and Mark Cross (also Rotherfield) is a closed railway station on the former Eridge - Heathfield - Polegate railway (the Cuckoo Line) in East Sussex. The station was built by London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and closed with the line in 1965 (the "Beeching Axe").

The station building is still standing, and is in use as a private house.

References

Branch Lines to Tunbridge Wells. Middleton Press.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Rotherfield and Mark Cross railway station” as railway station in Rotherfield, the UK. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rotherfield, Mark and Cross.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Rotherfield, Mark and Cross providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Rotherfield and Mark Cross railway station”, the useful work is to connect “railway station in Rotherfield, the UK” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7370418. Authority coordinates are 51.051, 0.233. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Rotherfield and Mark Cross railway station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Rotherfield and Mark Cross railway station primary sources, Rotherfield and Mark Cross railway station archive and Rotherfield research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Rotherfield and Mark Cross railway station”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Rotherfield and Mark Cross railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.