Sutton-Near-Seaford

SUTTON-NEAR-SEAFORD, a parish, in the union of Eastbourne, hundred of Flexborough, rape of Pevensey, E. division of Sussex, 11 miles (S. E. by S.) from Lewes. This parish and Seaford together comprise by admeasurement 2235 acres, of which 1298 are arable, 926 meadow and pasture, and 11 woodland and waste. The living is a discharged vicarage, with that of Seaford annexed; patrons, the Prebendaries of Sutton and Seaford in Chichester Cathedral. The tithes belonging to the impropriator have been commuted for £500, with a glebe of 8 acres, and those of the vicar for £240, with a glebe of one acre. The church is desecrated.