HARDHAM, a parish in the hundred of BURY, rape of ARUNDEL, county of SUSSEX, 6 miles (S. E. by E.) from Petworth, containing 114 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £5. 5.10., and endowed with £1600 royal bounty. Sir C. P. Goring, Bart, was patron in 1788. The church, dedicated to St. Botolph, is in the early style of English architecture. The parish is bounded on the east, north, and south by the river Arun, and partly on the west by a branch of the Rother, which there falls into the Arun. A priory of Black canons, in honour of the Holy Cross, or of St. George, was founded here, but by whom is uncertain.