BEEDING (Upper), a parish in Steyning district, Sussex; on the River Adur, near Bramber r. station, and 1½ mile E of Steyning. It has a post office, of the name of Beeding, under Hurstperpoint. Acres, 3,847. Real property, £5,356. Pop., 553. Houses, 118. The property is subdivided. A small Benedictine priory was founded here about 1075; belonged to the alien monastery of Salmur; and passed to Magdalene college, Oxford. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £112. Patron, Magdalene college, Oxford. The church is good, and there is a national school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))