HOUGHTON, a parish in the hundred of BURY, rape of ARUNDEL, county of SUSSEX, 3 miles (N.) from Arundel, containing 162 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, united to that of Amberley, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Chichester. . The church is in the early style of English architecture, with later insertions. The navigable river Arun runs through the parish.