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Saltings Way, STEYNING, BN44 3JH

The River Adur was formerly navigable for large vessels up as far as Bramber, where there was a large port, but as the river became silted up, the port moved down to the deeper waters nearer the mouth in Shoreham-by-Sea. This was mirrored in the history of Bramber Castle - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4596648 This view looks upriver at Upper Beeding, from a road which runs parallel to the river from Beeding Bridge.

Looking southwards with the houses on the right bank belonging to Millfield in Bramber and those on the left bank to Riverside, Upper Beeding.

Approaching Beeding Bridge on a misty morning in late September.

On the corner of Saltings Way and next door to the village barbers. Beyond the buildings is the eastern approach to Beeding Bridge.

On the Upper Beeding side of the River Adur as it heads north into the Sussex countryside.

Opposite the Kings Arms public house and dating back to the 18th century. The small lane to the right is Church Lane.

There were originally two bridges crossing the Adur at this point; Bramber Bridge was originally the more important crossing another arm of the river to the west and being 170 foot long stone bridge with a small chapel in the middle; and the lesser Beeding Bridge built of wood crossed the eastern arm of the river. The former's importance shrank as the western arm silted up and was eventually buried around the 17th century. The latter's importance increased and the wooden structure was replaced with a brick one in 1785. The iron footbridge was added in 1926 as the narrow bridge originally carried the A283 over the river until a by-pass was built to the south in the mid 1980s. Beeding Bridge also marks the boundary between Bramber to the left and Upper Beeding to the right.