[2] The village has a garden centre, social club and a pub, The Hamilton Arms, which has a Thai restaurant.

[4] The parish church of St James is at the north end of the village just above the River Rother.

[5][6] The parish (then called Stedeham) was listed in the Domesday Book (1086), in the ancient hundred of Easebourne, as a large settlement having 49 households: 23 villagers, 16 smallholders and 10 slaves.

Resources included ploughing land, meadows, woodland, three mills and the church.

[8] Stedham's watermill at the north end of the village was used for manufacturing blotting paper.