SHOREHAM (OLD), a parish in the hundred of
FISHERGATE, rape of BRAMBER, county of SUSSEX,
a mile (N. W. by N.) from New Shoreham, containing
235 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
with that of New Shoreham annexed, in the archdeaconry
of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the
king's books at AT. 18. 6, and in the patronage of the
President and Fellows of Magdalene College, Oxford.
The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. Here was an
ancient hospital, dedicated to St. James, which was valued,
in the reign of Elizabeth, at £1. 6. 8. per annum.