MERKSHALL, or MATTISHALL-HEATH, a parish in the hundred of HUMBLEYARD, county of NORFOLK, 3 miles (S.) from Norwich, containing 23 inhabitants. The! living is a sinecure rectory, united with that of Caistor St. Edmund's, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich. The church, which was dedicated to St. Edmund, is in ruins.