YAPTON, a parish in the hundred of AVISFORD, rape of ARUNDEL, county of SUSSEX, 5 miles (S. W.) from Arundel, containing 579 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, united to that of Walberton, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, rated m the king's books at £7. 10. 11. The church is principally in the early style of English architecture. The Arundel and Portsmouth canal passes through the parish. Stephen Roe, in 1766, bequeathed °£ 1200 three per cent. South Sea annuities, producing about £36 a year, of which sum £20 is applied for teaching twenty children, and the residue to other charitable purposes.