| 1854 | A male shot at Plumpton Bosthill (ES) on 16 September was the first British record. It was assigned to the paler western race C. g. galactotes (Nichol, M.J. 1908. A Sussex Rufous Warbler.. British Birds 2:201-2). | WB dFH |
| 1909 | [A male shot at St. Helens Park, Hastings (ES) on 4 June.] | WB HR |
| 1910 | [An adult male shot at Ninfield (ES) on 13 May (BoMNH 207808 as 18th).] | WB HR |
| 1913 | [An adult male shot at Brede (ES) on 20 September (BoMNH 207573).] | WB HR |
| 1915 | [A male shot at Westfield (ES) on 7 May.] | WB HR |
| 1918 | [A male shot at St. Leonards (ES) on 8 June.] | WB HR |
| 1951 | One seen on the Kent/Sussex border at the Wicks (K/ES) on 12 September was the sixth British record (Milne, B.S.,Palmer, K.H. and Pilcher, E.J. 1955. Rufous Warbler on the Kent/Sussex border. British Birds 48:329-30). Up until a county boundary change (in the 70s?) this area was entirely in Kent, hence probably explaining why this record not in * or dFH. | Not in * or dFH |