EASEBOURNE, a village, a parish, and a hundred in Sussex. The village and the parish are in Midhurst district; and the former stands near the river Rother, 1 mile NE of Midhurst r. station, and 5 WNW of Petworth, was once a market town, and has a post office under Midhurst. The parish comprises 4, 043 acres. Real property, £3, 848. Pop., 859. Houses, 158. The property is divided among a few. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here, in the time of Henry III., by John de Bohun; and the church of it, and some other remains of it, still exist. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester. Value, £130.* Patron, the Earl of Egmont. The church was the church of the nunnery; is perpendicular English, and in good condition; and contains an alabaster effigies of Sir David Owen, who died in 1542, and a marble monument of Lord Montague, who died in 1591. The workhouse for Midhurst district is in Easebourne.-The hundred is in the rape of Chichester; and contains Midhurst town and thirteen parishes. Acres, 30, 534. Pop., 7, 009. Houses, 1, 253.

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