DEOPHAM, a parish in the hundred of FOREHOE,
county of NORFOLK, 3 miles (W. by S.) from Wymondham,
containing 471 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and
diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at
£5. 7 11., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean
and Chapter of Canterbury. The church is dedicated
to St. Andrew. There was formerly a petrifying spring
at the foot of a remarkable linden tree in the parish.