BISHOPSTONE, a parish in the hundred of BISHOPSTONE, rape of PEVENSEY, county of SUSSEX, If mile (N. W. by N.) from Seaford, containing 277 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £8. 13.4., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Chichester. The church, comprising a nave, two chaneels, and a tower, is chiefly in the Norman style of architecture. The Rev. James Hurdis, Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and author of the " Village Curate," and other interesting poems, was born here, in 1763.