MARCHAM, a parish in the hundred of OCK, county of BERKS, 3 miles (W. by S.) from Abingdon, containing, with the chapelries of Frilford and Garlbrd, 1173 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £14. 15. 75, and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church is dedicated to All Saints. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. John Elwes, the eccentric miser, died here in 1789.