MERTON, a parish in the hundred of WAYLAND, county of NORFOLK, Similes (S. S.W.) fromWatton, containing 162 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £6. 0. 5. Lord Walsingham was patron in 1803. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, has a round tower; in the south window are effigies of St. Edmund and of Robert Clifton, in stained glass.