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Beddingham, Sussex

Historical Description

Beddingham, a parish in Sussex, on the river Ouse and on the L.B. & S.C.R., near Glynde station, 2½ miles SE of Lewes, under which it has a post office; money order office, West Firle; telegraph office, Glynde railway station. Acreage, 2888; population, 454. The manor is mentioned in the will of King Alfred, and had a monastery in the beginning of the 9th century. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of West Firle, in the diocese of Chichester; value, £196. Patrons, the Bishop and the Dean and Chapter of Chichester alternately. The church was restored in 1858, and again in 1884. A reading-room and institute was erected near Glynde in 1884.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountySussex 
Ecclesiastical parishBeddingham St. Andrew 
HundredTotnore 
Poor Law unionWest Firle 

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

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DistrictLewes
CountyEast Sussex
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtBN8
Post TownLewes

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