BURPHAM, a parish in the hundred of POLING,
rape of ARUNDEL, county of SUSSEX, 2 miles (N. E.
by E.) from Arundel, containing 223 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at
£7-12. 6., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean
and Chapter of Chichester. The church, dedicated to
St. Mary, is principally of Norman architecture. The:
river Arun bounds this parish on the west.