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Lower Beeding
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Lower Beeding is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. The village lies on the B2110, B2115 and A281 roads, 3.5 miles (6 km) south-east from Horsham, and is centred on Holy Trinity Church and The Plough public house, where the B2115 meets the B2110. The parish hamlets include Crabtree to the south of the village, and Ashfold Crossways and Plummer's Plain to the north-east. A spring at Plummer's Plain is the official source of the River Ouse, which eventually reaches the sea at Newhaven.
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In the early 13th century, monks of Sele Priory (St Peter's Church, Upper Beeding) established a small mission base in St Leonard's Forest near Horsham, naming it Lower Beeding. Despite being about 12 miles (19 km) away, Lower Beeding remained part of (Upper) Beeding parish until Victorian times. The existence of Lower Beeding led to differentiation in the name of the original Beeding in some medieval sources, adding the 'Upper'.
A local landmark is Leonardslee Gardens, located between Lower Beeding village and Crabtree, which closed to the public in 2010 but reopened in April 2019.
The South Lodge Hotel in Lower Beeding was the venue for the 2009 G20 Summit meeting of finance ministers.[3]
Newells Preparatory School was located in the village until 1968; it is today in Handcross and part of Brighton College.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "2001 Census: West Sussex – Population by Parish" (PDF). West Sussex County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2009.
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
- ^ Telegraph report on G20 finance meeting Retrieved 25 May 2009
External links
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Media related to Lower Beeding at Wikimedia Commons- Lower Beeding web site
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