MADEHURST, a parish in the hundred of AVISFORD, rape of ARUNDEL, county of SUSSEX, 3 miles (N.W.byN.) from Arundel, containing 169 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £6. 8. 10., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Chichester. The church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene.