Steyning is a small rural town and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It is located at the north end of the River Adur gap in the South Downs, four miles north of Shoreham-by-Sea. The smaller villages of Bramber and Upper Beeding constitute, with Steyning, a built-up area at this crossing-point of the river.DemographyThe parish has a land area of 1,574 hectares . In the 2001 census 5,812 people lived in 2,530 households, of whom 2,747 were economically active.