WIVELSFIELD, a parish in the hundred of STREET, rape of LEWES, county of SUSSEX, 4 miles (S. E.) from Cuckfield, containing 537 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the. archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, endowed with, £800 royal bounty, and £1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Impropriators. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is principally in the early style of English architecture. There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. Six poor children are instructed for £5 per annum, arising from the sum of £100 bequeathed by Francis More, in 1723.