CLENCHWHARTON, a parish in the Marshland division of the hundred of FREEBRIDGE, county of NORFOLK, 2 miles (W.) from Lynn-Regis, containing 456 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £ 14. 6. 8., and in the patronage of Miss Docker. At the time of the Norman survey this place was called Ecleuuartuana, signifying a watery situation by a river, and was divided into north and south.