BARNHAM, a parish in the hundred of AVISFORD, rape of ARUNDEL, county of SUSSEX, 65 miles (S. W. by W.) from Arundel, containing 173 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £7 15., endowed with £200 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Chichester. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The Arundel and Portsmouth canal passes through the parish.