This drinking fountain/trough is a rectangular basin set on piers
which incorporate two carriage curbing stones. On top of the trough
is an ogee-headed drinking fountain. The trough has been planted
with flowers.
The inscription on the front of the trough reads 'In Memory of
Captain C W Sergison Scots Guards and Michael Delaval Sergison
erected by their sister Lady Glanusk'.
The site of the trough used to be occupied by the village
stocks, and the areea is still known as 'The Stocks' by some of the
older cuckfield residents.
It was decided at an urban district council meeting in 1917 to
turn on the water to the Sergison trough and to put a white enamel
mug on a chain there for people to drink from.
Originally it was suggested of erecting a drinking fountain to
comemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, but this was dismissed
as it was suggested that drinking fountains were only ever used by
tramps and they were not welcome in the village.
There is no pencil in this cache, so please bring your own
If any body would
like to expand to this series please do, I would just ask that you
could let Merstham Mafia know first so he can keep track of the
cache numbers and names to avoid duplication