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Rh mean East Bourne. Ashburnham is now in Foxearle hundred, which title we may trace in the "Folsalre" of (D.B.) In the (Nonæ Roll,) as in (A.D. 1291), Ashburnham and Penhurst are annexed, but two churches are named. Also "Ashburnham, V. with Penhurst, R." (Clergy List, 1850.)

"Ashburnham forge, the last of the iron works in the eastern division of this county, has ceased to work about seven years." (Horsfield's Suss. I, 560, published in 1834.) But under Dallington (Ib. 568), he writes, "Ashburnham furnace, as it is generally called, is just in this parish. It has ceased working about twenty years, and the buildings have since been taken down." For an interesting historical memoir on the Iron Works of Sussex consult (Suss. Arch. Coll. II, 169 et seq.), especially the beginning for the evidence of the manufacture having been carried on by the Romans.—The small stream, which runs from Ashburnham, is still called the Ashburne.

15. .—This church contains some coloured glass. (Horsfield's Suss. II 5 244.) In (Val. Eccl.) this place appears with Buncton chapelry attached to it. It is perhaps far from improbable, that Ashington may be signified by the "Aschongurn" in King Alfred's will, named together with Arundel, Seeding, Compton, &c. (Asser's Alfred by Wise, 77.)

16. .—This church "has undergone a thorough repair within a few years, so as to completely alter its original appearance." (Horsfield's Suss. II, 245.)

17. —Is now included in the parish of Angmering, but was formerly a distinct parish, possessing its own church, which must have been desecrated and destroyed now for some centuries. The name is in the neighbourhood pronounced "Barfham," Barpham therefore may be conjectured the true title, in distinction from the contiguous parish of Burpham. This place, now scarcely a hamlet even, lies nearly on the summit of the hill beyond Angmering park northward, about two miles and a half from the village of Angmering. A little north-west of the old manor-house, in the north-east angle of the large grass field on the opposite side of the lane to the house, the foundations of the church yet appear just above the ground (visited in the autumn of A.D. 1848). The outline is clearly traceable, proving the building to have comprised only nave and chancel, the length of the whole measuring but twenty-one paces. The mortar of the old walls is very hard, without the apparent admixture of any kind of gravel. The spot may be easily recognised by an