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Station Road, UCKFIELD, TN22 5XB

Heading south towards the station and junction with Horsted Lane and Lewes Road. This is the southern end of Isfield that was built up after the arrival of the railway and station in 1858, the right hand side lined by more substantial 19th century villa type houses whilst those on the left arrived midway through the 20th century.

The Laughing Fish is in the quiet village of Isfield, not far from Uckfield or Lewes, in East Sussex. It is a Greene King tenancy run since February 2001 by tenants Andy & Linda Brooks The pub is reputed to have started life as a chapel when it was built in the 1860s. However, it is possible that this view has been influenced by the unusual shape of the entrance doors at the front. It was certainly never consecrated, and was soon a hostelry serving the newly built railway. At first, it was called the Half Moon Pub Website: http://www.laughingfishonline.co.uk/

The village pub was built in the 1870s to serve the recently arrived railway and was called the Station Inn. It replaced the former village pub located opposite the post office known as the Half Moon Inn and now a private house called Lime Tree Villas. The name was changed to the current one sometime in the 1950s, believed to be because the then landlord was a keen angler and found the original name boring. It survived the closure of the station in 1969 but has benefited from the reopening in 1986 as a preserved line. Since the 1950s the pub has been the organiser of the 'Tommy Trot' a race to the old steam mill and back carrying half a tankard of beer the winner being the person who has the most liquid left in their container.

Victorian houses opposite the Laughing Fish and Isfield station originally built for 19th century commuters.Isfield Cottage and Imperial Cottage are in the building to the left whilst to the right is Grafton which also contains two dwellings.

Now home to the Lavender Line a preserved railway consisting of the station and a mile of track to the north. The engine shed can be seen in the distance.