IFORD, a parish in the hundred of SWANBOROUGH, rape of LEWES, county of SUSSEX, 2 miles (S. by W.) from Lewes, containing 157 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, united to that of Kingston near Lewes, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £10". 10. 2. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is in the early style of English architecture. In the Saxon times here was a shrine or statue of a Pagan deity, called Niorde, of which the present name of the parish is a corruption.