CHIDDINGLY, a parish in the hundred of SHIPLAKE, rape of PEVENSEY, county of SUSSEX, 5 miles (N.W.) from Hailsham, containing 870 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at A 8, and in the patronage of the Duke of Dorset. The church has a handsome tower and spire, partly of early English architecture; the rest of the building is of later composition.