Bronze Age
BC 1700-500
Nomadic Hunting – Flint implements, cores and flakes found
Iron Age
BC 500 – AD 50
Hunting, Iron Smelting – Piper Copse earthworks
Roman British
AD 50-400
Hunting – Pottery found
Saxon
800-1050
Forest Swine Herds – Saxon Charter 898 – Pre-Norman work in Church
Medieval
1050-1300
Forest clearing for farms – Subsidy rolls citing farms – Church Nave and Chancel built
1300-1600
Farming and French Glass Working – Glass furnace sites found, Church North Aisle and Tower built
Modern
1550-1650
Farming and Iron Industry – Furnace, Forge and Mill Ponds found
1575
Margaret Cooper of Kirdford was found guilty and put to death for bewitching Henry Stoner on 1 April ‘who languished until 20th April following, when he died’.
1600-1700
Farming: Growing local prosperity – Most existing farm houses built
1700-1800
Predominately growing corn – evidence from tithe maps
1880-1900
Decline in corn growing – due to fall in prices and increased imports
1900
Dairy farming begins
1914-1918
Great War: 24 Kirdford men killed – Names recorded in the church
1934
Kirdford Growers Co-operative formed – now Bourne Meadows
1937
Fruit and dairy farming
1938-1939
Mains electricity and water connected to the village
1939-1945
Second world War – Canadian soldiers stationed in Village (Normandy stud was one of the barracks)
1946
Creamery ceased taking milk to London
1947
Townfield development
1950
Church Lychgate dedicated
1953
Village Hall replaced to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II Coronation
1969
New School built in Townfield
School on Butts Common closed
1977
Ron Snelling MBE retired from the Post Office
Village Hall extended to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee
1988
Ron Snelling celebrated his 100th birthday
2001
Village School closed
2006
Post Office closed
2010
Kirdford Village Stores opened
Kirdford Village 
Hi, can you tell me who ran the post office after Ron Snelling retired in 1977 until it closed?
Ron Snelling only delivered the post around the village, he did not run the post office. The postal deliveries were carried on by Judy Peacock after Mr Snelling retired. Post was delived to village by van from Billingshurst to then be delivered by bicycle.
That is a good question, I am not sure as the Post Office moved from it’s location opposite BlackBear Cottage to Townfield, although I do not know when the move occured.
The Townfield Post Office closed in 2006, when the Village Shop closed.
Hi, In answer to your question; My parents, Sonja & Calvin Crimmins, Ron Snelling father of Marry Snelling (She ran Snelling’s Garage, up by Kirdford Growers) was the PO delivery man in those days and he was never the owner, we as a family lived in Kirdford from 1976 to 1981 when the property was sold and the PO closed. Sonja (Mum) is buried in the churchyard having died in Lincolnshire in 1988 but wanted to return to her beloved Kirdford, Dad is still going now re-married and living in Lincolnshire.
I am Duncan Crimmins now living in Hertfordshire
Thank you Duncan, great information there. Much appreciated.
Tony
can anyone tell me where Strood green laid in relation to Kirdford and what sort of size area it was ?