PIECOMBE, a parish in the hundred of POYNINGS, rape of LEWES, county of SUSSEX, 3 miles (S.) from Hurst-Pierrepoint,containing218inhabitants. Theliving is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £15. 8. 9., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is in the later style of English architecture.