Bibliography - Upper Beeding, Horsham District, West Sussex
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Parish of Beeding, or Seele, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. II, rape of Bramber, pp.220-223) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2397][Lib 3212] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500088] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Beeding Upper, or Sele, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. I, pp.43-45, Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3314] & The Keep [LIB/500159]   View Online

Ordnance Survey Book of Reference to the plan of the Parish of Upper Beeding and the Parish of Henfield and the Parish of Steyning, published 1874 (article, London: H.M.S.O. & printed at George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)   View Online

Ordnance Survey Book of Reference to the plan of the Parish of Upper Beeding, published 1875 (article, London: H.M.S.O. & printed at George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)   View Online

The Chartulary of the Priory of St. Peter at Sele, by L. F. Salzman, published 1923 (xxvii + 118 pp., Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8265] & East Sussex Libraries

Beeding Church, by Colonel H. C. Evans, published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 1, article, pp.64-66) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

Old Manorial Customs from the Manor Rolls of Horton Maybank in the Parish of Beeding, by Rev. H. E. B. Arnold, M.A., published 1931 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. V no. 12, article, pp.808-809; & Vol VI no. 1, pp.11-13) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2310] & The Keep [LIB/500174]

Horton Maybank in the 18th Century, by Rev. H. E. B. Arnold, M.A., published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 3, article, pp.167-170) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

St Peter's, Beeding, by H. E. B. Arnold, published 1938 (booklet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9207]

St Peter's, Beeding: Church and Priory, by S.E.C., published c.1958 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10278]

The Barn, Main Farm, Upper Beeding, by Margaret Holt, published May 1961 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XV no. 7, note, pp.241-242) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8233] & The Keep [LIB/500217] & S.A.S. library

Excavations 1976: Old Erringham Farm, Upper Beeding, by O. Bedwin, published December 1976 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 20, article, p.97, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Steyning, Bramber and Upper Beeding Local Plan, 1978-1988, published 1978 (booklet, Horsham District Council) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8588]

The Excavation of a Cross Dyke at Old Erringham Farm, Upper Beeding, West Sussex 1976, by Owen Bedwin, published 1979 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 117, article, pp.11-20) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7497] & The Keep [LIB/500312] & S.A.S. library

A Chapter of Incidents: Strange Events at the Funeral of Benjamin Bland, by Mrs. J. M. Huntbach, published December 1979 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 4 no. 2, article, pp.56-57) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8672] & The Keep [LIB/501256] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Describes the burial of Benjamin Bland and the death of Charles Goddard from a large tree falling on him. Article covers the years 1851 - 1866 in the parish of Upper Beeding

Old Views of Steyning, Bramber and Beeding, by George Cockman, John Green and Stephen Harris, published 1981 (booklet, 28 pp., Steyning: Wests) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7766] & West Sussex Libraries

More Old Views of Steyning, Bramber and Beeding, by George Cockman, published 1983 (booklet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8884][Lib 12694] & West Sussex Libraries

The Bramber - Beeding Causeway, by Eric W. Holden, published 1986 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 124, historical note, p.263) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9762] & The Keep [LIB/500311] & S.A.S. library

Parish of Upper Beeding, by A. P. Baggs, C. R. J. Currie, C. R. Elrington, S. M. Keeling, A. M. Rowland and edited by T. P. Huson, published 1 January 1987 in A History of the County of Sussex (vol. 6, part 3: North-eastern part of the Rape of Bramber including Crawley New Town, pp.29-45, London: Victoria County History, ISBN-10: 0197227686 & ISBN-13: 9780197227688) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9945][Lib 9946] & The Keep [LIB/500077] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Bygone Steyning, Bramber and Beeding, by Aylwin Guilmant, published 1988 (The History Press, ISBN-10: 0850336694 & ISBN-13: 9780850336696) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10115] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Steyning, Bramber, and Beeding are now quiet backwaters. It is a large part of their present charm that they preserve much of the atmosphere of a past age. Yet, paradoxically, the three adjacent communities were relatively busier. Bustling river trade on the Adur combined with their position as centers for a thriving agricultural community, with markets, fairs, a castle, a priory, a great collegiate church and, by the 10th century, even a mint; all these made them places of importance in the Middle Ages.

But Who Outwitted the Dealer?, by Cecily Moorhouse, published March 1990 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 9 no. 1, article, pp.30-32) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11999] & The Keep [LIB/501261] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The story behind the discovery of a masterpiece at Beeding.

Religious Survey 1851 - Steyning district, edited by John A. Vickers, published August 1990 in The Religious Census of Sussex 1851 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 75, pp.107-117, ISBN-10: 085445036X & ISBN-13: 9780854450367) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10578][Lib 13824] & The Keep [LIB/500452][LIB/507827] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Steyning district incl. Shoreham, Hove, Preston, Patcham, West Blatchington, Hangleton, Portslade, Southwick, Kingston-by-Sea, Sompting, Coombs, Buttolphs, Upper Beeding, Edburton, Poynings, Woodmancote, Henfield, Ashurst & Shermanbury

Phantoms or Visions, by Hugh Stoner, published March 1994 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 1, article, p.36) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Mr William and Miss Ann Stoner kept the village post office at Beeding for a number of years

Adur Valley. Bramber and Beeding, by Graham Kean and Tony Ketteman, published 1997 (Steyning Museum Trust) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

The Public Houses of Upper Beeding, by Janet Pennington, published 1998 in History of a Village, Beeding (article, Beeding and Bamber Local History Society)

Beeding History of a Village, edited by Alison Noble, published 1998 (pamphlet, Beeding and Bamber Local History Society, ISBN-10: 0952829402) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13846] & Steyning Museum & West Sussex Libraries

Coleoptera from the upper peat bed at Horton Clay Pit, Small Dole, near Upper Beeding, West Sussex, by G. Russell Coope and John A. Cooper, published 2000 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 111 issue 3, article, pp.247-252)   View Online

In 1913 a series of beetle fossils were recovered from a peaty bed in the overburden of a clay pit near Small Dole, Upper Beeding in West Sussex. These remains were preserved in the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, though no attempt was made to identify them. This paper presents the results of a recent study of these fossils. Altogether, 38 taxa of Coleoptera have been recognized, enabling a detailed picture to be built up of the local environment, namely of a rather sour pool in largely open heathland with a sparse growth of coniferous trees. Mutual Climatic Range analysis of the coleopteran assemblage shows that, although mean July temperatures were only a degree cooler than those of the present day, mean January temperatures were about 6°C cooler than today. It is likely that these deposits date from the Brørup Interstadial near to the start of the last (Devensian, Weichselian) Glaciation.

History of Shoreham Cement Works, by Ron Martin, published 2004 in Sussex Industrial History (issue no. 34, article, pp.26-35, ISSN: 0263-5151) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506532]   Download PDF

Located in the Adur Valley at TQ 200086, are the remains of the Shoreham Cement Works. Although mainly within the parish of Upper Beeding, successive owners have always referred to the site as "Shoreham". It was built on both sides of the A283 road at the east side of the River Adur and the 1861 Shoreham to Horsham railway line. The existing works was built between 1946 and 1952 as a state of the art design and was finally closed in 1991.

A Glimpse into the Past 100 Years of Baptist Worship in Upper Beeding, by Diana R Durden, published 2005 (leaflet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15528][Lib 11942]

Beeding and Bramber, Two Sussex Villages: A Study of the Probate Inventories, Wills and Accounts, 1613-1775, edited by Janet Pennington, A. Noble and Joyce Sleight, published 2007 (52 pp., Beeding and Bamber Local History Society, ISBN-10: 0952829428 & ISBN-13: 9780952829423) accessible at: Steyning Museum & West Sussex Libraries

Beeding: History of a Village, by Beeding and Bramber Local History Society, published 2011 (94 pp., Beeding and Bamber Local History Society, ISBN-10: 0952829436 & ISBN-13: 9780952829430) accessible at: Steyning Museum & West Sussex Libraries

The People of Beeding and Bramber in the Great War, by Pat Nightingale and Ken Wilson-Wheeler, published 9 September 2016 (179 pp. + 110 illus., Beeding and Bamber Local History Society) accessible at: Henfield Museum & Steyning Museum

Covers the stories of soldiers who were killed in WW1, and those that survived, from the villages of Upper Beeding, Bramber, Botolphs, Small Dole, Edburton and Fulking.

An Interesting and Descriptive Guide to Steyning, Bramber, Beeding, Wiston, Ashurst and District, published (no date) (booklet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4312]

St Peter's, Beeding: Church and Priory, by E. C. S., published (no date) (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17609]

Upper Beeding Parish Register, published (no date) by the Sussex Family History Group and Parish Register Transcription Society (Ref: SXW78, CD-ROM)

Baptisms, Marriages and Burials 1544-1901, Banns 1754-1899 and clergy census 1870-1881. Indexed Transcription. Includes 9 photographs outside the church. Vol.78.