BURTON, or BODEKTON, a parish in the hundred of ROTHERBRIDGE, rape of ARUNDEL, county of SUSSEX, 3 miles (S. by W.) from Petworth, containing 14 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with that of Coates consolidated, discharged from the payment of first fruits, but paying tenths to the Bishop of Chichester, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £7- 3. 11., and in the patronage of the Earl of Egremont. The Rother, or Arundel navigation, forms the north-eastern boundary of this parish, where it is crossed by a bridge to Shropham.