DUNHAM (Great), a parish in Mitford district, Norfolk; 2 miles N of Dunham r. station, and 5¾ NE of Swaffham. It has a post office under Swaffham. Acres, 1, 968. Real property, £3, 736. Pop., 493. Houses, 112. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, not reported. Patron, R. B. Humfrey, Esq. The church is very ancient, supposed to be partly Saxon; and was recently repaired There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, a national school, and charities £53.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))