Marham

Marham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, approximate Template:Convert away from King's Lynn. An RAF station, RAF Marham, is situated nearby at Upper Marham.<ref name=osexp236>Ordnance Survey (1999). OS Explorer Map 236 - King's Lynn, Downham Market & Swaffham. Template:ISBN.</ref> The village covers an area of Template:Convert and had a population of 2,951 in 788 households as of the 2001 census,<ref>Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes. Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Retrieved 20 June 2009.</ref> increasing to 3,531 at the 2011 Census.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The villages name means 'Pool homestead/village' or 'hemmed-in land with a pool'.

Governance

Marham is a parish of the Kings Lynn and West Norfolk district council, which is responsible for the most local services. Norfolk County Council is in charge of roads, some schools, and social services, and the county councillor for the Gayton & Nar Valley division is Graham Middleton (Conservative) since 2017. For Westminster elections Marham forms part of the South West Norfolk constituency.

Religion

Holy Trinity Church of England parish church is a Grade I listed building.<ref>Template:National Heritage List for England</ref> It dates from Norman times and has a Norman doorway. Since its original design, each part of the building has been reconstructed. The doorway has a single-scallop shaft on each side. The semi-circular arch is high enough to allow the tympanum within to be filled with a checkered "lozenge" pattern.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Marham Methodist church joins with the Anglicans for some of its services.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Notes

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External links

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• Information from Genuki Norfolk on Marham.