NINFIELD, a parish in the hundred of NINFIELD rape of HASTINGS, county of SUSSEX, 5 miles (S.w! by W.) from Battle, containing 618 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £8, and in the patronage of the Earl of Ashburnham. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.