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STEYNING , a small market town in the mid parliamentary division of Sussex, England, 102 m. W.N.W. of Brighton by the London, Brighton & South
Coast
series of Norman pier-arches in the nave
The Anglo-Saxon church of Steyning (Stoeningas, Stoeningum, Staninges, Stenyges, Stenyng) mentioned in Domesday is attributed to St Cuthman, who is said to have settled here before the 9th century, and whose shrine became a resort for pilgrims. The later prosperity sf the town was due to its harbour. Alfred bequeathed Steyning to his nephew, but it evidently reverted to the Crown, as it was granted by Edward the Confessor to the abbot and convent of Fecamp, with whom it remained until the 15th century. By ro86 Steyning was a thriving port. It had a market, a mint and two churches, and the borough contained 1 23 burga ges. The decay of the town began in the 14th century owing to the recession of the sea, and it received another blow in the suppression of its priory by Henry
parliament from 1298 until it was disfranchised in 1832. In the 14th century the abbot of Fecamp held weekly markets in the borough on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and fairs at the Nativity of the Virgin and the Feast of St Michael, by prescriptive right. The present market day is Wednesday, for stock, and a cattle fair
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