*STENING, (Sussex) 40 cm. 47 mm. from London, is a poor little T. with scarce 200 families, but an ancient Bor. by
prescription, with the style of constable and burgesses; and we are informed, that it was once a very large T. and Co. of
itself, and had a mon. which was afterwards turned into a college for a dean and secular canons. Its constable, who is
chosen yearly at the Ld. of the manor's court-leet presides over and determines the election of its members of Pt. Here is
a grammar fr. sc. founded above 100 years ago, by Mr. Holland, a tradesman of this place. Here is a Mt. on W. and the
second W. every month for cattle. The Fairs are May 9, Sept. 8 and 29. The two first Fairs in the year are pretty large,
for all sorts of cattle, feed, wheat, &c. but its Michaelmas Fair is much the greatest, there having been 2 or 3000 Welsh
cattle sold at it in a Day, besides abundance of other cattle, sheep, hogs, and horses, feed, wheat, &c. so that 'tis
counted one of the greatest Fairs in Sussex. There are some hundreds of acres of land about this T. worth above 20 l. an
acre per annum, which often produce 30 or 40 bushels of wheat, and 30 bushels of barley, per acre. The downs are also so
good pasture for the sheep, as well as black cattle, that there is as sweet and as sound beef and mutton in these parts as
any where in England. Upon the hills, within 1 m. of the T. is a good 4 m. course, where plates are often run for. The air
hereabouts is very healthy, and the people are generally long-lived. The T. is supplied with water from a great hill not
half a m. off, which drives two mills; and the road passing through here from Lewes, Brighthelmston, and Shoreham, to
Petworth, Midhurst, &c. is a great advantage to it. Near it was the seat of the late Sir Robert Fagg.