Marham is a village and
civil parish
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in the
English county of
Norfolk
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, approximate away from
King's Lynn. An RAF station,
RAF Marham, is situated nearby at Upper Marham.
[Ordnance Survey (1999). ''OS Explorer Map 236 - King's Lynn, Downham Market & Swaffham''. .]
The village covers an area of and had a population of 2,951 in 788 households as of the
2001 census, increasing to 3,531 at the 2011 Census.
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
Norfolk County Council is the top-tier local government authority for Norfolk, England. Its headquarters are based in the city of Norwich.
Below it there are 7 second-tier local government district councils: Breckland District, Broadland Distr ...
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
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. For Westminster elections Marham forms part of the
South West Norfolk constituency, represented by
Liz Truss
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(Conservative).
Religion
Holy Trinity
Church of England parish church is a Grade I listed building. It dates from
Norman
Norman or Normans may refer to:
Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
** People or things connected with the Norm ...
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.
Marham
Methodist church joins with the Anglicans for some of its services.
Notes
http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Norfolk/Marham
External links
*
Information from Genuki Norfolkon Marham.
Villages in Norfolk
King's Lynn and West Norfolk
Civil parishes in Norfolk
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