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.

Administration

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

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Beddingham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Beddingham (St. Andrew))

Maps

Online maps of Beddingham are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Sussex newspapers online:

• Mid Sussex Times
• Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal
• Sussex Agricultural Express
• Hastings and St Leonards Observer
• Sussex Advertiser
• Brighton Gazette
• Bexhill-on-Sea Observer