DITCHELLING, a parish in the hundred of STREET, rape of LEWES, county of SUSSEX, 3 miles (E.S.E.) from Hurst-Pierpoint, containing 844 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chi Chester, rated in the king's books at £11, endowed with £210 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Chancellor in the Cathedral Church of Chichester. The church, dedicated to St. Margaret, is mostly in the early style of English architecture, with some windows in the decorated style. There is a place of worship for Independents. Ditchelling was formerly a market-town; a fair for sheep and hogs is held on the 5th of April, and one for pedlary on the 12th of October. In the neighbourhood there is an old quadrangular camp; and vestiges of a Roman road may be traced.