ROUDHAM is a small parish, 2½ miles W. of East Harling, which contains 27 houses, 140 souls, and 2,025 acres of sandy land, in two farms, occupied by John Brooks and Robert Green. One house and 110a. is the property of H. D. Hemsworth, Esq. ; and the rest belongs to Sir T. G. S. Sebright, Bart., the lord of the manor and patron of the vicarage, valued in the King's book at £4 16s. 5½d,, and now enjoyed by the Rev. Thomas Currie, B.A., of Bridgham, where the inhabitants attend the church, their own Church being destroyed by fire more than a century ago, though some of its ruined walls are still standing.
