BEEDING, a parish in the hundred of BURBEACH, rape of BRAMBER, county of SUSSEX, comprising Upper and Lower Beeding, and containing 904 inhabitants, of which number, 499 are in the former, 1 mile (E.), and 405 in the latter, l£ mile (E.S.E.), from Steyning. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £8, and in the patronage of the President and Fellows of Magdalene College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. An Alien priory of Benedictine monks was founded here about 1075, the revenue of which, amounting to £26. 9. 9., was given to the Society of Magdalene College, in the reign of Henry VI. The navigable river Adur runs in the vicinity.