BINHAM, a village and a parish in Walsingham district, Norfolk. The village stands 4 miles NE of Walsingham r. station, and 5 SE of Wells; and has a post office under Wells, Norfolk, and a fair on 26 July. It is pleasant and picturesque; much visited in summer by parties at the watering-places; and retains the shaft of an ancient cross. A Benedictine Abbey was founded here, in 1104, by Peter de Valoines; and the church of it still stands, and is used as the parish church. The nave has two pure early Norman arcades; the west front is very fine early English, with magnificent window; and the stalls, seats, and font are good perpendicular.—The parish comprises 2,242 acres. Real property, £3,402. Pop., 512. Houses, 130. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £103. Patron, T. T. Clarke, Esq. Charities, £55.

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