PARHAM, a parish in the hundred of PLOMESGATE,
county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (N. by E.) from Wickham-
Market, containing 448 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, consolidated with that of Hachestoii,
in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of
Norwich, endowed with £ 200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty. Mrs. White was patroness in 1818.
The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Parham Hall is
one of the curious remaining specimens of domestic
architecture prevalent in the reign of Elizabeth. Richard
Porter bequeathed a cottage for a school-house, and
a rent-charge of £ 12 for teaching twelve poor boys of
Parham and Hacheston.