32 BECKLEY. SUSSEX. (KELLY's

:BECKLEY is a parish, bounded on the south by C. ~- Pennefather, Williem Langham Christie, Glynde. the river Tillingham and on the north by the river bourne, Glynde, Messrs. Molineux and Francis Smith Bother, which separates the county from Kent, 6~ miles esqrs. The soil is loamy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops west-north-west from Rye station, on the Ashford and are wheat and hops. The area is 599 acres of land and Hastings section of the South Eastern railway, in the 2r of water; rateable value, £4,409; the population in Eastern division of the county, Goldspur hundred, r8gr was r,I4I. Hastings rape, Rye petty sessional division, union and Sexton, James Larkin. county court district, rural deanery of Hastings (second Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel division), archdeaconry of Lewes and diocese of Chiclies- Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office (Sub-Office. ter. The church of All Saints is of stone, of the Early Letters "lhould have S.O. Sussex added).-Wm. May- Decorated period, and has a. tower with spire containing mud, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Hawkburst 6 bells, it was restored in I885 at a cost of about £2,5oo, 5·45 a.m. and from Rye at 1.30 p.m.; dispatched _at and has about 300 sittings. The register dates from the 9.40 a.m. 2.30 & IQ p.m. ; on sundays, 6.30 a.m.; dls- year I597· The liYing is a rectory, net income [570, with patched at IO. rs p.m. Letters should be addressed Rye. residence and 26 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Master Wall Lett~r Box, Four Oaks.-Collection at 9-SO a.m. & and Fellows of University College, Oxford, and held since Io. w p.m. ; sunday, ro. IO p. m 1888 by the Rev. James Lee-Warner M.A. former:y Police Station, Alfred Furminger, constable fellow and tutor of that college. Here is a Wesleyan National School (mixed), erected in 186o, for I8o chil- Methodist chapel built in I84o. Thomas Smith Pix: esq. dren; average attendance, 144; William Henry ()f Peasmarsh, is lord of tlle manor. The principal Blackmore, master; Mrs. lllackmore1 infants' mi.stress landowners are Edward Frewen esq. of Northiam, Capt. Carriers.-See Northiam PRI\.A.TE RESIDENTS. Blanche Mary (Miss), laundress Payne George (~Irs.), farmer Ilarr-Hamilton John A. H. The Firs Clapson James, Rose & Crown P.H PennefatherCapt.C.E. frmr. Hayes frm Comfort Misses, Church house Comfort H. _M. (Miss), collegiate Roberts Albert, farmer Kay Mrs. Lime court school for g1rls, Church house Russell Hiram, builder KenyerstJer Perrey ~Ir~. Chest-nut lodge Hague ·wm. Jenkrn, farmer, Knelle Venner George, blacksmith Smith Francis, Woodgate Harvey Stephen, timber merchant Venner Thomas, boot maker Wvse Thomas, Oak house Kenyon George Herbert M.D., C.M. Vincett William, butcher • surgeon, The Poplars Wenham Thomas, shopkeeper cmmERCI.A.L. ~Iaynard lrilliam, grocer & linen Weston William, grocer & linen drapr Ballard Ebenezer, farmer, Bellhurst · draper, Post oflice Whatman Thomas, butcher Ballard John, farmer, Kitchenour frm Mills Edwin, bricklayer Wyse Thomas L.R.C.P. & S.I. sur- Eeaney \Yilliam, wheelwright Noakes Lewis, farmer, Hobbs geon, Oak house :BEDDINGHAM is a parish, on the road from Lewes A Reading Room and Institute was erected near Glynds to Eastbourne, 52~ miles from London and 2~ miles in this parish, in r884. Rear-Admiral the Hon. Thomas south-east from Lewes, in the Southern division of the Seymour Brand, of r2, Lennox: gardens, London S.W. is county, Lewes union, Totmore hundred, Pevensey lord of the manor and one of the principal landowners; rape, Le»es petty sessional division and county court Viscount Gage and Richard Hoper esq. of Cowfold, am district, rural deanery of Pevensey (second division), also large landowners. The soil is chalk and clay; sub­ archdeaconry of Lewes and diocese of Chichester. soil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. Glynde station, on the Brighton and Hastings seciiun The arP.a is 2,882 acres of land, 6 of wat~r, IQ of tidal of the London, Brighton and South Coast railway, is water and 12 of foreshore; rateable value, £4,375; ths in this parish. The church of St. Andrew is an ancient population in 189I was 4S4· 'building of flint;:, in thA Early English and Der.orated Parish Clerk, C. J. Stilwell. styles, and has a tower cont3ining 4 bells: in r8S8 the SextFirle; telegraph The register of baptisms dates from the year 1685 ; mar- offices at Glynde & the railway station, 2 miles dist-2nt riages I686, :md burials, I695. The living is a vicarage, Pillar Letter Box, Cross roads, cleared at 6.20 p.m. ; with that of West Firle annexed in I747• net y£Oarly value, sunday, 10.30 a'.m £r8o, with z acres of glebe, in the 3lternat.e gift of the Parochial School (mixed), built in I8SB & enlarged in Bishop of Chichester and the Dean and Chapter, and held I888; it will now hold 70 children; average attendance, since 1878 by the Rev. William Parry Crawley M.A. of 40; Miss Kate H. Hoptroff, mistress Trinity College, Oambridge, who resides at West Firle. RailwayStation, Glynde, Hy. Goo. Peerless, station clerk (For other names in this parish see Batten Jasper, farmer, Durham farm Lee John, farmer, Preston court G!ynde.) (letters through Tarring Neville) *Reading Room & Institute Freeman William, assistant overseer Scrase Henry, farm bailiff to Richard PIUV.A.TE RESIDENTS. for Glynde, Mill house Hoper esq. Itford farm. (Letters Brand Hon. Charles J.P. Littledene Hilton Thos.market g-ardener,Toy frm through Rodmell) fngram Ja.mes Crofts, Cob be Place; Killick William Hugh Moren, farmer, Thompsett Henry, farmer, Comps frm ~ 67 Lincoln's Inn fields, LondonWC Court House farm LOWER BEEDING is an extensive parish 8 miles erected in I875 by the late W. E. Hubbard esq. (d. iD length, 4 south-east from HorS'ham -station, on tJhe I'883) and now the property of Sir E. G. Loder bart. Londlon, Brighton, and! South .Coa.stt Railway, in the is used, 'by lcind permis·sion of the owne.r, as a. woxkmen's Nerllh We"lt.em d.iviS!ion of the county, hundred! of Bur­ cl'ulb for the parish, which has a librwry of 500 beac:h, rape of Eramber, Horsham. petty seS for 3SO perSO'Ils, ISO being free. Col. J ames Clifton Brown, of Holmbush, Colgate, Sir E. The register dates from the year 1840. The living is B G. Loder bart. Charles Robert Scrase-Dickins esq. of vicarage, net income £IIo, with residence and 20 acres Coolhurst, Erio Carrington Smith esq. of Slaugham, of glebe, in the gift of William Egerton Hubbard esq. and Philip Saillard esq. of Buchan hill, and L. M. Reed esq. held since 1892 by ·the Rev. Robert Wa!:tter Powell :M.A. are the principal landowners. The soil varies much from of T:rirrity College, Cam!bridge. St. Leonard'·s Fmest, light sand to heavy clays, and is suiteble for all kinds of oonstitutedl a district chapelry by Act of Parlliarrnent in crops. The area of the civil pari8h is I0,032 acres of land 1838, is :in this parish. St. John tlle Ba.pt..ist's> chapel of and x2r are water; rateable value, £IQ,222 2s. 3d. ; the eaae :in St. Leonard's Forest, near to Coolhurst, is of population in 1891 was civil, 1,284; ecclesiastical, 799· stone, and has a turret containing I bell; four of the Colgate is an ooclesiastical d'i!trict formed from this window.s are stained; iJt wa