ROTHERFIELD, a parish in the hundred of ROTHERFIELD, rape of PEVENSEY, county of SUSSEX, 5 miles (W. S. W.) from Wadhurst, containing 2782 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £27. 12. 6., and in the patronage of the Earl of Abergavenny. The church, dedicated to St. Denis, is principally in the early style of English architecture; it has an arched roof of chesnut wood. There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. The river Rother has its source in this parish, and there are several chalybeate springs in the neighbourhood. Sir Henry Fermor, in 1732, bequeathed £3000, now producing an annual income of £260, which is appropriated to the instruction and clothing of thirty children of both sexes. Berthwald, Duke of the South Saxons, founded here, about 800, a monastery, subordinate to the abbey of St. Denis in France, but not the slightest vestige of it can now be traced.