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In Steyning, there is access to a variety of facilities. These include 4 public houses, 4 estate agents and 4 banks. Furthermore, there is a state-of-the-art leisure centre, which was built with National Lottery funding. The town is home to Steyning Grammar School (a paradoxically titled state comprehensive), which has a body of around 2500 students, with a sixth form comprising over 400. The school has a catchment area that extends as far as Dial Post and sometimes Worthing.
Steyning is also home to a succesful amateur football club, Steyning FC, who are climbing ever higher. Although mainly composed of local villagers, there is the odd ex-professional involved. That said, the star of the team is a local boy, Mark Watkins, currently 19.
Steyning has existed since at least Anglo-Saxon times. King Alfred the Great's father, Ethelwulf of Wessex, was buried there in the church of St Cuthman, before being transferred to Winchester.
Edward the Confessor granted Steyning to the abbot and convent of Fécamp, who retained control until the 15th century. The Abbey of Fécamp re-dedicated the church of St Cuthman to St AndrewSaint Andrew (Greek, Andreas "manly"), the Christian Apostle, brother of Saint Peter, was born at Bethsaida on the Lake of Galilee. He had been a disciple of John the Baptist ( John 1:37-40) and was one of the first to follow Jesus. He lived at Capernaum in the 13th Century.According to the Domesday BookThis article is about the 11th century census. See BBC Domesday Project for the multimedia project. Domesday Book (also known as Domesday or Book of Winchester , was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Con, by 1086Events Domesday Book is completed in England Emperor Shirakawa of Japan starts his cloistered rule Imam Ali Mosque is rebuilt by the Seljuk Malik Shah I after being destroyed by fire. Deaths May 25, Pope Gregory VII September 25 William VIII, Duke of Aqui Steyning was a thriving port. It had a market, a mint and two churches. However, in the 14th century, the river began to silt up and the town began to decay.
Later, Steyning was a rotten boroughThe term rotten borough (or pocket borough as they were seen as being "in the pocket" of a patron) refers to a parliamentary borough or constituency in the Kingdom of England (pre-1707), the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707-1801), the Kingdom of Ireland (15, returning two MPs from 1278Events August 26 Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat the Bohemians in the Battle of Marchfield. A pareage establishes joint Spanish/French suzerainty in Andorra. John Peckham succeeds Richard Kilwardby as archbishop of Canterbury, Kilw until it was disfranchised by the Reform Act of 1832The British Reform Act of 1832 (also referred to as as the Great Reform Act introduced the first changes to electoral franchise legislation in almost one hundred and fifty years. It met strong opposition from the Tories, who had defeated earlier bills, an.
In 1614Events April 5 In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. October 11 Adriaen Block and a group of Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the area he explored and named " New Nether, William Holland, Alderman of ChichesterChichester is a city in the south of England, in the county of West Sussex. It is the administrative centre for the Chichester district. The area is believed to have been a bridgehead for the Roman invasion of Britain and the city centre stands on the fou founded and endowed Steyning Grammar School.