BIRDHAM, a parish in the hundred of MANHOOD, rape of CHICHESTER, county of SUSSEX, 4 miles (S. W. by S.) from Chichester, containing 532 inhabitants. " The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £10. 0. 10., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Chichester. The church is dedicated to St. Leonard. The Portsmouth and Arun canal passes through the parish, and terminates at Chichester harbour. Here is a National school, in which about one hundred boys and girls are instructed.