CRIMPLESHAM, a parish in the hundred of CLACKCLOSE, county of NoRFOLK,2 miles (E.) from Downham- Market, containing 279 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in- the king's books at. £ 8, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Ely. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.