St Peter Churchyard in Upper Beeding, West Sussex

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Upper Beeding, Horsham District, West Sussex BN44 3HP England

Coordinates: 50.88735, -0.30565
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Upper Beeding is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.
The community was originally called Beeding, with the civil parish changing to Upper Beeding in modern times. As is common in such cases, the ecclesiastical parish retains the original name (hence it is the parish of Beeding, and the parish church is Beeding Church). In the early 13th Century the monks of Sele Priory (St Peter's Church, Beeding) began a mission to the area of St Leonard's Forest near Horsham, and established a small mission base, naming it Lower Beeding. Despite being some 10 miles (16 km) away, Lower Beeding remained a part of Beeding parish until Victorian times. The existence of Lower Beeding led to differentiation in the name of the original Beeding in some medieval sources, but always as River Beeding. For this reason the prefix Upper is still ignored by many local people today, who refer to their community by the original title of Beeding.
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