RAINHAM (SOUTH), a parish in the hundred of GALLOW, county of NORFOLK, 5 miles (S. W. by S.) from Fakenham, containing 101 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, with Helloughton, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £6, endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of William Ainge, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Martin. A Cluniac priory, in honour of St. Mary and St. John, a cell to that of Castle-Acre, was founded here, about 1160, by William de Lisewis.