MILEHAM, a parish in the hundred of LAUNDITCH, county of NORFOLK, 6 miles (N. W.) from East Dereham, containing 516 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £11. 1. 10. The Rev. C. B. Barnwell was patron in 1825. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. The river Nar rises in the parish. Charles Ward, in 1743, bequeathed £200 for teaching children, and clothing the poor. A strong castle was erected here, soon after the Conquest, by Alan, son of Flaald, ancestor of the Fitz-Alans, Earls of Arundel, vestiges of which may be traced within a double intrenchment enclosing an area of twelve acres, and the site of the keep encompassed by an inner trench. Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was born here; he died September 3rd, 1634.