WITTERING (WEST), a parish in the hundred of MANHOOD, rape of CHICHESTER, county of SUSSEX, 7i miles (S. W.) from Chichester, containing 504 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £10. 3. 4., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Prebendary of Wittering in the Cathedral Church of Chichester. The church exhibits portions in the various styles of English architecture. The parish is bounded on the southrwest by the English channel, and on the northwest by the mouth of Chichester harbour. Wittering is included in the privilege of sending four poor boys to the school founded, in 1702, at Chichester, by Oliver Whitby, who also left an annuity of £3 towards supporting a school for six boys at this place.