BARNHAM-BROOM, a parish in the hundred of
FOREHOE, county of NORFOLK, 4 miles (N. N. W.) from
Wymondham, containing 388 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, united, with that of Bixton, to the vicarage
of Kimberley, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese
of Norwich, rated in the king's books at£ 12.8. l.
The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul: there
was formerly another, dedicated to St. Michael, but it
is now desecrated. Here is a small endowment for the
instruction of six poor children.