Description
Beddingham, a parish in Sussex, on the river Ouse and on the L.B. & S.C.R., near Glynde station, 2 1/2 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 and Wales, 1894-5
