RUNHAM, a parish in the eastern division of the
hundred of FLEGG, county of NORFOLK, 4 miles (W.
by S.) from Caistor, containing 211 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at & 4,
endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Bishop of Ely. The church is dedicated to St.
Peter and St. Paul: a sum of money was bequeathed,
in 1501, by Rose Dook, for erecting the steeple. A
market, and a fair on the vigil and festival of St. Peter
ad Vincula, were granted by King John to Robert de
Evermere.