BURNHAM-NORTON, a parish in the hundred of BROTHERCROSS, county of NORFOLK, l£ mile (N.) from Burnham-Westgate, containing 187 inhabitants. The living, consolidated with that of Burnham-Ulph, is a rectory divided into medieties, one of which is held with Burnham-Sutton, rated jointly in the king's books at £17- 10.,' in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge; the other is held with Burnham-Westgate, jointly rated at £20. 16. 8. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. A Carmelite monastery was founded,'about 1241, by Sir Ralph de Hemenhale, and Sir William de Calthorp, Knts., the revenue of which, at the time of the dissolution, was estimated at not more than £2. 5. 4. Robert Bale, the historian, ' was prior of this house, and, dying in the reign" of Henry VII., was interred here.