SHERMANBURY, a parish in the hundred of WINDHAM-and-EWHURST, rape of BRAMBER, county of SUSSEX, 7 miles (N. E. by N.) from Steyning, containing 320 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £ 4. 19. 4., and in the patronage of the Rev. J. G. Challen, D.D. The church is dedicated to St. Giles. The river Adur, which divides into two branches in the parish, is navigable hither from Shoreham. The springs here are strongly impregnated with iron, and there are some of a saline quality. Here are the groined gateway and some other remains of a castellated mansion, surrounded by a moat called Ewhurst, and anciently a seat of the Lords De la Warr.