Marsham is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in the English county of

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

, about north of

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...

. It covers an area of and had a population of 674 in 282 households at the 2001 census. For local government purposes, it falls within the

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...

Broadland Broadland is a local government district in Norfolk, England, named after the Norfolk Broads. The population of the local authority district taken at the 2011 Census was 124,646. Its council is based in Thorpe St Andrew. In 2013, Broadland w ...

. Marsham has its own Parish Council, Marsham Parish Council.

History

The '' Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' (1870–1872) described Marsham thus:

Gallery

File:Marsham Mutual Improvement Association.JPG, The Mutual Improvement Institution is a

Grade II listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Ir ...

dating back to 1857. File:Marsham Village Sign 2.JPG, The village sign was erected in 1953 to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. File:Plough Inn Marsham.JPG, ''The Plough Inn'' Marsham File:Marsham Village Sign 1.JPG, The village sign depicts the peewit bird

References

Villages in Norfolk Civil parishes in Norfolk Broadland {{Norfolk-geo-stub