Patcham (All Saints)
PATCHAM (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Steyning, hundred of Dean, rape of Lewes, E. division of Sussex, 3¼ miles (N. by W.) from Brighton; containing 579 inhabitants. The village is on the road from London to Brighton, and the London and Brighton railway runs through the parish. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £7. 1. 5½., and in the gift of the Crown; income, £110; impropriator, J. Paine, Esq. The church is partly in the early and partly in the decorated English style. Within the parish is Hollingsbury encampment, near which a celt and some other antiquities were found in 1827.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.