BOURNE (WEST), a parish in the hundred of WESTBOURN-and-SINGLETON, rape of CHICHESTER, county of SUSSEX, 7 miles (W. N. W.) from Chichester, containing 1852 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, hi the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £10. 10. 5., and in the patronage of the Rector: the living is a sinecure, rated at £24. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Rev. Lewis Way. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a neat commodious structure, in the later style of English architecture, with a well-proportioned spire of British oak, erected by the Earl of Hah'fax, formerly the munificent proprietor of Stansted Park, in the adjoining parish. The parish is situated on the seashore, and contains several hamlets; it abounds with pleasing scenery, studded with an unusual number of genteel residences, particularly in the hamlet of Prinsted, the houses in which, each situated within a small shrubbery, or flower garden, are in the form of a crescent. On its western side is a small ajstuary, which is crossed by a bridge, uniting the hamlet of Hermitage with the small brisk sea-port of Ems worth, in the county of Southampton. On the south is Thorney channel, which at low water is passable for carriages to and from Thorney island.