WESTHAM, a parish in the lowey and rape of PEVENSEY, county of SUSSEX, 5 miles (S. E,) from Hailsham, containing 583 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £21. 10. 10., and in the patronage of Lord George Cavendish, The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is partly in the later style of English architecture, and partly of earlier date. There is an almshouse, containing four tenements, called the hospital of St. John, endowed with thirty acres of land, granted, as it is supposed, by one of the religious societies of Layney and Priest Hawes, the remains of which have been converted into farm-buildings.