Welcome to Upper Beeding
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2023
- This video covers the West Sussex village of Upper Beeding. This village is one of the few that lies directly on the River Adur. Its heritage stretches back to Saxon times, if not before.
It is located at the northern end of the River Adur gap in the South Downs, four miles (6.4 km) north of Shoreham-by-Sea and has a land area of 1,877 hectares (4,640 acres). The site is a bridging point over the river: on the opposite bank are Bramber and Steyning, making the whole area somewhat built-up. The civil parish also includes the smaller village of Small Dole to the north (nearer to Henfield), and the village of Edburton to the northeast.
The village of Edburton is briefly mentioned in the video. Here is a link to the referenced video, “Edburton and its Castle”: • Edburton and its Castle
Chapters:
00:20 Introduction and Overview
02:20 Amenities in the Village
04:42 History
09:46 St. Peter Church
11:32 The Towers Convent School
13:20 Salt Making
15:33 The Civil Parish, including a description of the village of Small Dole
18:27 Shoreham Works
Very interesting!
And the graphic showing the scattering of salterns and a quay and the church on their own little island just across from the promontory of Bramber Castle is fascinating.
The future King Charles had a very narrow escape on his journey E through Bramber & Beeding then across the Downs to Brighton. Apparently, as he and his small party were proceeding through Bramber there was suddenly the clatter of hooves behind and a party of Roundheads came galloping towards them. The story goes that his companions wanted to flee but Charles urged calm and they maintained the same slow pace towards the bridge. Whereupon the Roundheads went thundering past and on towards their eventual goal...
As Charles was said to be extremely tall by the standards of the day it seems remarkable, and especially in broad daylight, that he still escaped detection despite Parliamentary troops scouring the countryside for him.
as a Henfield resident i found this amazingly informing, thank you so much
Henfield will be the subject of a later video, I hope!
My Uncle Peter lived in Beeding. We use to visit him around 1960. He lost his legs due to trench foot. I can't quite make out where he lived, using Google Maps, but we would walk down to St Peters Church and then on to the salt marsh near the river. The church contains the grave of my cousin, whose second name is the same as my first name. Seeing this grave for the first time, which had my name on it, was spooky..
Small Dole tip, an old clay quarry, is where thousands of tons of ash from Shoreham Power Station was dumped. Pulverized Fuel Ash, (PFA). This was used to cover industrial waste, back in the 70's.
i used to live in beeding, nice place to live, good video very long history and was also known for a lot of smuggling and what have you
This is a great video and accurate to. Well done
Good information well put together. Keep the videos coming. There must be many ex-pat English who didn't know that much about Sussex before they left the sceptered isle.
As a near local resident I am considerably impressed by your research to produce such an informative discourse on the history of "the Dole" as 'eberyone' calles this hamlet. The clay pits mentioned were backfilled in the 1960's (IIRC) by council waste and produced a foul smell as well as tumultuous screeching from gulls scaving the tippings from the local council(s). That's all gone now and we're left with an extension to the downs.
Gone also is the Shoerham to Horsham railway known locally as "the Henfield Puffer". From my bedroon window I could hear its cheery 'toot' twice a day as it signalled its approach to an ungated crossing. That line was closed as part of - or mebe just before the infamous Dr. Beeching worked his havoc on the uunprofitable branch railways of this country. Perhaps in 'compensation' this and other branch 'railroads' as you call them - have been turned into ver excellent footpaths and bridleways. We have spent may hours riding and driving our horse and carriage all the way to Horsham on this track!
You win some and loose some!
Very many thanks for your continued research of this locality !!
As per usual , excellent production .. informative .. well documented .. narrated clearly and methodically ..
Although I hav’nt lived in the UK for many decades ( residing now in Gibraltar) I still enjoy your posts … shame they are so few and far between… btw , nice to hear you refer to “my wife” once , making a change from “the British bride” … lol … look forward to your next ‘episode’ 😉 … Barrie … Rock of Gibraltar.
Lovely in depth video: many thanks especially for explaining the reason this village is 'Upper' when Lower Beeding is actually higher! Fascinating details about the salt industry, and the churches and pubs. West Sussex is blessed with some beautiful tiny churches: perhaps the most historically important is at Hardham, but Greatham and Buncton are also lovely. Incidentally, in any of your thorough researches have you discovered any reference as to why West Sussex has Buncton, Duncton and Runcton, but no similar names seem to occur anywhere else?
Look forward to your next exploration
@1:18 Hey! I can see my house from here! ;)
My house is in there somewhere, too! We live there, of course.
Towers Sixth Form? I think your film shows the sign outside the Towers indicating that it is in fact the Lower School
Yes, I probably got that wrong. But that's what |I read in one of my sources.
Congratulations you called the petrol station correctly - and not a 'gas' station. Then you ruined it by calling the row of shops a 'mall'!!!
🤣- Yes, I'm constantly misnaming things. I'll call a lift a "lift" in one minute, but an "elevator" the next. In the US, it is common to call a row of shops like that a "strip mall." I'll probably never be completely Britishized in my speech!
Or Anglicised.@@SussexYank