LAUGHTON, a parish in the hundred of SHIPLAKE, rape of PEVENSEY, county of SUSSEX, 65 miles (E. by N.) from Lewes, containing 731 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £9.11.3., and endowed with £200 royal bounty. The Earl of Chichester was patron in 1801. The church is principally in the early style of English architecture, with insertions of a later date.