HEIGHTON, or South HEIGHTEN, a parish in Lewes district, Sussex; adjacent to the river Ouse and to the Newhaven railway, 1½ mile N by E of Newhaven. Posttown, Newhaven, under Lewes. Acres, 923. Real property, £615. Pop., 104. Houses, 18. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Rev. J. Harman. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Tarring-Neville, in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £412. Patron, the Rev. P. A. Fothergill. The church of H. was destroyed by lightning in 1769; and that of T. N. now serves for both parishes.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))