Upper Beething, Sussex

Historical Description

Beething, Upper, a parish in Sussex, on the river Adur, near Bramber station on the L.B. & S.C.R, and 1¼mile E of Steyning. The area is 3975 acres of land, and 21 of foreshore and water; population, 506. It has a post and money order office; telegraph office, Bramber. A small Benedictine priory was founded here about 1075; belonged to the alien monastery of Salmur, and passed to Magdalen College, Oxford. The living is a vicarage in the d'.ocese of Chichester. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church is good.

Maps

Online maps of Upper Beething 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