Talk:Lindfield, West Sussex

Hey ho,

http://uk.gamespot.com/features/mdk/2guide_2lindfield.html is "evidence" of sorts that there is a level in MDK (very famous at the time!) set in Lindfield. It's just the first link on google that I found.

Hopefully this is enough, i'll check back in a week or two and see if i can put the link back in. Would be a shame for this town to miss out on a classic gaming reference

86.155.85.46 (talk) 21:47, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. Not the best source in the world. For all we know, the game makers may just have picked a name at random from the map of Sussex. I'm a little rusty on gaming sites, but somewhere there may be a review that says it is the real Lindfield with a little more authority than that. -- Rodhull andemu  21:57, 13 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I decided to get some primary sources, then! I just went into the game and got two print-screens of the mission briefing

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v152/johnparkes/Lindfield1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v152/johnparkes/Lindfield2.jpg

As you can see, the briefing text refers to Lindfield by name and the other shot before the text has come up shows a map with Lindfield near the centre :) (217.43.194.140 (talk) 10:29, 14 November 2008 (UTC))

Cricket References
The Lindfield Cricket Club makes a reference to this 1747 date. Several other sites do as well. A quick search of Google books suggests further references, but the full text isn't available, and I haven't seen the originals. Can anyone confirm these as useful references?--Bohemiath (talk) 10:33, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Bishop, John George (1892). A peep into the past: Brighton in the olden time, with glances at the present
 * McCann, Timothy J. (2004). "Sussex cricket in the eighteenth century", Volume 88 of Sussex Record Society
 * Without reading these, McCann is up to date and looks ideal. Historians from the 19th century should be reliable for events in their own period but can recycle old established myths and often did not have the depth of knowledge of modern works. No reason not to use it though.--Charles (talk) 22:12, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Merge Great Walstead School
I propose that Great Walstead School be merged to this page. I can find insufficient reliable secondary sources to establish notability for a stand alone article for the school. Merging is standard practice for primary schools. At present it is little more than an advert.--Charles (talk) 13:00, 29 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Oppose apart from anything else, the school is not a primary school. Searching has revealed three WP:RS qualifying sources, two of which were most certainly not what the school might have wished. The tone of the article is poor and irrelevant to this discussion. That just requires a serious clean up Fiddle Faddle (talk) 19:01, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment I have now found a significant number of reliable sources and added them to the article. Please try harder to find things. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 00:23, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment I find it depressing when the proposer of a merge such as this removes cited information from the article proposed to be merged. That removal makes it appear that the article has less notability than it has, and thus adds spurious weight to the already very thin argument in favour of a merge. This school is well enough referenced, though the article tone remains poor. The notability is such that it stands alone perfectly well. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 13:54, 30 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Oppose. This is a school of historic interest and multiple sources will exist. It is not a primary school. The article needs improving but that is no reason for a merge. Dahliarose (talk) 23:24, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

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The Old Place
There's an image labelled The Old Place, but I'm pretty sure this is the house known as the Thatched Cottage. Old place may be the half-timbered house in the background, but there's not enough of it visible to be sure. I'll double check with the listing and other sources before making changes, in the meantime comments appreciated! Kognos (talk) 16:04, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Captions on commons images are frequently in error. might help.SovalValtos (talk) 16:51, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. From this and the maps on the NHLE site it's clear that the Thatched House is in the foreground, and the Old Place in the background. I've edited the caption to indicate this. Kognos (talk) 19:20, 9 May 2020 (UTC)