PORTSLADE, a parish in the hundred of FISHERGATE, rape of LEWES, county of SUSSEX, 2 miles (B. by N.) from New Shoreham, containing 421 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £8. 18. 8., and in the patronage of the Crown. The' church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is principally in the early style of English architecture.