ROXHAM is a parish on the River Wissey, 2 ½ miles south-east from Downham station on the Lynn and Ely line of the Great Eastern railway, in the South Western division of the county, Clackclose hundred and petty sessional division, Downham union and county court district, rural deanery of Fincham, archdeaconry of Lynn and diocese of Norwich. The church of St. Michael now no longer exists. The living is a vicarage annexed with that of Ryston to the vicarage of Fordham, May 29, 1877, average tithe rent-charge, £150, joint net yearly value £220, including 32 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, and held since 1890 by the Rev. Gerrard Alexander Crookshank M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, who resides at Fordham. There are traces of a moat, which anciently encompassed a house, called “Walpole House,” in this parish, near to which is a pond with a paved bottom. Edward Roger Murray Pratt esq. of Ryston Hall, is lord of the manor and owns the whole of the parish. The soil is clay; subsoil, sand and ragstone. The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area is 591 acres, divided between three farms; rateable value, £411; the population in 1891 was 55.

The children of this place attend the school at Fordham.