FLITCHAM, a parish in the Lynn division of the hundred of FREEBRIDGE, county of NORFOLK, 4 miles (E. by N.) from Castle-Rising, containing 346 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Thomas W. Cuke, Esq. In the reign of Henry III. a priory of the order of St. Augustine was founded at this place, as a cell to Widsingham abbey, by Robert dAiguillon, the revenue of which was valued at the dissolution at £55. C>. 6.; the walls and offices remain. Here is a hill with a squuiv area, surrounded by a trench, where, in the reign of William llufus, the hundred court was held.