BODIAM, a parish in the hundred of STAPLE,, rape of HASTINGS, county of SUSSEX, p miles (N. W.) from Winchelsea, containing 314 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chi Chester, rated in the king's books at £6. 18. 6., and in the patronage of Sir G. V. Webster, Bart. The church, an ancient edifice, is dedicated to St. Giles. The parish is bounded on the north and south by two branches of the river Rother, which unite at its eastern extremity. The castle has become uninhabitable, and in its present mouldering state forms an extensive and interesting ruin, though still complete in some of its parts.