Upper-Beeding.net is dedicated to the charming village of Upper Beeding nestled in the Adur valley hugging the River Adur near Steyning West Sussex and the adjoining Castle at Bramber. The modern village of Upper Beeding today falls within the Horsham District and disclosed a population of 3,798 in the 2001 census

In Saxon times Beeding had a near neighbour, the hamlet of Sele. The village of Upper Beeding today incorporates both communities, with the village centre located between the sites of the two original Saxon settlements. Saxon Beeding was closer to the cement works area of modern Beeding, whilst Saxon Sele was nearer to the parish church (Sele Priory Church of St Peter) in modern Beeding

The community was originally (and for the majority of its history) called Beeding, with the civil parish changing to Upper Beeding in modern times. As is common in such cases, the ecclesiastical parish retains the original name (hence it is the parish of Beeding, and the parish church is Beeding Church). In the early 13th Century the monks of Sele Priory (St Peter's Church, Beeding) began a mission to the area of St Leonard's Forest near Horsham and established a small mission called Lower Beeding. Despite being some 10 miles away, Lower Beeding remained a 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. For this reason the prefix Upper is still ignored by many local people today, who refer to their community by the original (and current ecclesiastical) title of Beeding.