CONGHAM, a parish in Freebridge-Lynn district, Norfolk: 3 miles ESE of Castle-Rising, and 5½ N of East Winch r. station. Post town, Grimstone, under Lynn. Acres, 2, 850. Real property, £2, 687. Pop., 315. Houses, 68. The property is all in one estate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £453.* Patron,-the Rev. Dr. Kersley. The church is ancient, of stone and flint; and consists of nave and chancel, with a tower. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and a national school. sir Henry Spelman, the antiquary, was a native.

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