Lower Beeding, Sussex

Description
Beeding, Lower, is an extensive parish in Sussex, in St Leonard's Forest, 4 1/2 miles from Horsham station on the L.B. & S.C.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 10,153; population of the civil parish, 1284; of the ecclesiastical, 799. There are several good residences. Crabtree Hall was erected in 1875 as a village hall and a workmen's club, and contains a good library. The lands of Bewbush and Holmbush belong to Colgate, a district of Lower Beeding. Holmbush Beacon Tower, 106 feet high, is visible for many miles round. the living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £108 with residence. The church was built in 1839, and enlarged in 1864. There is a chapel of ease dedicated to St John the Baptist, beautifully situated in St Leonard's Forest.