UCKFIELD, a parish in the hundred of LOXFIELD-DORSET, rape of PEVENSEY, county of SUSSEX, 8 miles (N.E-byN.) from Lewes, containing 1099 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory of Buxted, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church, dedicated to the Holy Cross, is principally in the later style of English architecture. There is a place of worship for Baptists. The parish is bounded on the west by the river Ouze: in the neighbourhood are two powerful chalybeate springs. About a mile from the village, which is a well-built, respectable place, is a manufactory for raw and refuse silk. Fairs are held on May 14th and August 29th. Dorothy Ellis, in 1706, bequeathed £4. 10. a year, for the instruction of ten young children; and, in the same year, Dr. Anthony Saunders left a messuage, schoolhouse, and land, in. trust, for the establishment- of a free grammar school for six boys of this parish, and six of Buxted; he also gave his library for the use of the school: the master receives £10 per annum, and the residue, amounting to £20 a year, is applied in apprenticing poor boys of Buxted. This school is now incorporated with a National school, supported by subscription, which affords instruction to about sixty children. In a house once occupied by Bishop Christopherson, confessor to Queen Mary, are massive rings and other vestiges of popery. Dr. Edward Clarke, the celebrated traveller, and librarian to the University of Cambridge, passed much of the early part of his life at Uckfield.