WASHINGTON, a parish in the hundred of STEYNING, rape of BRAMBER, county of SUSSEX, 4 miles (W. N. W.) from Steyning, containing 704 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £9. 10., and in the patronage of the President and Fellows of Magdalene College, Oxford. The church is in the early style of English architecture.