WILMINGTON, a parish in the hundred of LONGBRIDGE, rape of PEVENSEY, county of SUSSEX, 4 miles (S. W.) from Hailsham, containing 321 inhabit- ants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £8, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Lord George Cavendish. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is principally in the Norman style of architecture. A Benedictine priory, a cell to the abbey of Grestein in Normandy, was founded here in the time of William Rufus, which, at its suppression, was valued at two hundred and forty marks per annum, and sold by license of Henry IV. to the Dean and Chapter of Chichester, to whom it was confirmed by Henry V., towards founding a chantry of two priests in the cathedral church. Wilmington gives the inferior title of baron to the Marquis of Northampton.