Bepton
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Bepton is a village, Anglican parish and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. According to the 2001 census it had 104 households with a population of 249 of whom 117 were economically active. The village is about south-west of Midhurst. The hamlet of Bepton Common (grid reference SU871205) is in the north-east corner of the parish, just outside Midhurst.
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Bepton is a village, Anglican parish and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. According to the 2001 census it had 104 households with a population of 249 of whom 117 were economically active. The village is about south-west of Midhurst. The hamlet of Bepton Common (grid reference SU871205) is in the north-east corner of the parish, just outside Midhurst.
==History== Bepton (Babintone) was listed in the Domesday Book (1086) in the ancient hundred of Easebourne as having 23 households: 10 villagers, 10 smallholders and three slaves. With ploughing land and a church, it had a value to the lord of the manor of £5. The lord was an unspecified Geoffrey, and the tenant-in-chief was Earl Roger of Shrewsbury.
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