Steyning
Steyning is a small rural community and also civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies at the north end of the River Adur gap in the South Downs, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Shoreham-by-Sea. The smaller towns of Bramber as well as Upper Beeding constitute, with Steyning, a built-up area at this crossing-point of the river. The parish has a land area of 1,574 hectares (3,890 acres). In the 2001 census 5,812 people stayed in 2,530 households, of whom 2,747 were economically active. In Steyning there is access to a range of facilities including 4 pubs, the prize-winning Steyning Tea Rooms, four estate representatives as well as barclays financial institution. There is a leisure centre, which was built with National Lottery game funding. It has a modern health and wellness centre, a town library as well as the Steyning Museum. A springtime fair is hung on the Springtime bank holiday (the last Monday in May), The Monarch's Way long-distance path skirts the southern end of the community.
