ASHURST, a parish in the hundred of WEST
GRINSTEAD, rape of BRAMBER, county of SUSSEX, 3fmiles
(N.) from Steyning, containing 394 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Chichester, and in the patronage of the
President and Fellows of Magdalene College, Oxford.
The navigable river Adur runs through this parish.