Glynde and Beddingham

Glynde and Beddingham Parish Council is a combined council of two civil parishes in the Lewes district of East Sussex.

Governance
On a local level, Glynde and Beddingham is governed by Glynde and Beddingham Parish Council. Council meetings are held every two months in the Beddingham Reading Room. Their responsibilities include footpaths, street lighting, playgrounds and is a statutory consultee for planning applications, the planning authority being the South Downs National Park Authority. The Parish Council has seven members; four representing Glynde Parish and three representing Beddingham Parish.

The next level of government is the District Council. The parish of Glynde and Beddingham lies within the Ouse Valley and Ringmer ward of Lewes District Council which returns three seats to the council. The election in May 2023 elected three Green Party Councillors; Johnny Denis, Emily O'Brien and Lucy Agace.

East Sussex County Council is the next tier of government, for which Glynde and Beddingham is within the Ringmer and Lewes Bridge division, with responsibility for Education, Libraries, Social Services, Civil Registration, Trading Standards and Transport. Elections for the County Council are held every four years. In 2021, Johnny Denis (Green Party) was elected to represent the Division.

The UK Parliament constituency for Glynde and Beddingham is Lewes. Conservative, Maria Caulfield, was elected as Member of Parliament for Lewes in May 2015 and re-elected in 2019 replacing Liberal Democrat Norman Baker who had held the seat since 1997.

Landmarks
There are five Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) within the parish. Firle Escarpment, which extends into the neighbouring parish of Firle. Another site, completely within the parish is Asham Quarry which is of geological interest due to its stratigraphy of Devensian and Flandrian deposits.

Southerham Grey Pit and Southerham Machine Bottom Pit are two more SSSIs of geological interest within the parish. These sites are disused chalk pits which display a wide variety of fossilised fish remains. The final SSSI is Lewes Downs, a site of biological interest, which is an isolated area of the South Downs.

Within the parish, overlooking the village of Glynde, is Mount Caburn, a 480 foot (146 m) isolated peak on top of which sits an Iron Age hill fort.