Amberley, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands on the river Arun, under the South Downs, 4 1/4 miles N by E of Arundel, and has a station on the L.B. & S.C.R., 55 miles from London. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under Arundel. It is a quaint, old-fashioned, picturesque place. A palace at it, now used as a farmhouse, was a residence of the Bishops of Chichester, originating soon after the Conquest, castellated in 1379, forming a parallelogram, with square towers at the corners and round towers at the gateway, and seized and dismantled by Waller in 1643. The parish church is variously Norman and Early English, and has a fine Norman chancel arch, and a very rich Early English south door. The Wild Brook marsh adjacent is flooded in winter, but yields profusion of turf and cranberries in the summer. The river Arun runs through it, and contains here choice salmon peel, which have long been noted as Amberley trout The parish includes also the hamlet of Rackham. Acreage, 1941; population, 525. The living is a vicarage, united with that of Houghton, in the diocese of Chichester; value, £420. Patron, the Bishop of Chichester. There is a Congregational chapel.