HARTFIELD, a parish in the hundred of HARTFIELD, rape of PEVENSEY, county of SUSSEX, 6 miles (E. S. E.) from East Grinsted, comprising North and South Hartfield, and containing 1440 inhabitants, of which number, 474 are in North Hartfield, and 966 in South Hartfield. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £10, and in the patronage of the Rector of Hartfield: the rectory is a sinecure, rated at £7, and in the patronage of the Heirs of the Duke of Dorset. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is partly in the early, and partly in the decorated, style of English architecture. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The rivers Medway, Bole, and Kentwater, run through the parish, which includes part of Ashdown Forest: there are some fields, called Castle fields, probably the site of an ancient fortress. The Rev. Richard Rennes, in 1640, founded a free school, and endowed it with certain property, now producing £27 per annum; and, in 1725, the Earl of Thanet gave a rent-charge of £ 10 a year, in augmentation of th6 master's salary, for which all children who apply are instructed. There is a spring, the water of which possesses similar efficacy to that of Tunbridge Wells.