MARHAM, a parish in the hundred of CLACKCLOSE, county of NORFOLK, 7 miles (W. by N.) from Swaffham, containing 678 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £6. 13. 4., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Master andFellows of St. John's College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. A Cistercian nunnery, in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was founded here in 1251, by Isabella de Albini, Countess of Arundel, which at the dissolution had a revenue of £42. 4. 7.