Gresham is a village and civil parish in North Norfolk, England, five miles (8 km) south-west of Cromer.

In the Domesday Book of 1086, Gresham is recorded as one of the holdings of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey.

A partition of Bacon's property was made between his heirs in the 35th year of King Edward III,[4] and when the division between Moleyns and Burghersh was complete, Gresham went to Margery, who died in 1399.

The manor then fell into a complicated contract for the future marriage of Moleyns's daughter Katherine which did not take place, and Thomas Chaucer (c. 1367–1434), Speaker of the House of Commons, and the son of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, acquired the manor of Gresham and sold it to William Paston.

[7] Eight months later, when Paston's attempts to recover the manor through negotiation and legal action had failed, he sent his wife to occupy "a mansion" in the parish.

I wol ben ryght sory to dwel so nere Gressam as I dede tyl the mater were fully determynyd be-twix the lord Moleynis and you.

[10] A curious case of 1786 in the Court of King's Bench called The King against the Inhabitants of Gresham was to do with the master-servant relationship in the case of William Thompson, a settled inhabitant of Gresham until 1780, who had entered the service of a Mr Creemer of Beeston Regis and later became a pauper.

The church is decorated English, in good condition; has a round tower; and contains a curiously sculptured font.

[12]Twelve men of Gresham were killed in the First World War, of whom five were members of the Norfolk Regiment.

Of the six men of the village killed in the Second World War, three were sons of Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Cossley Batt.

Scenes represented on it include a baptism, a holy eucharist, and parishioners clustering around a neighbour's deathbed.

Walter Johnson, in Byways in British Archaeology, comments that "Its presence there was probably accidental, but it is well to recall the Breton practice of building stone axes into chimneys to ward off lightning".

The Colonel demanded that all high church decorations be removed, the clergyman refused, and Batt took the matter to a consistory court and won.

[21] For centuries, the church had its own rector, but it now shares a clergyman, who lives at West Runton, with neighbouring villages.

[22] Much of the parish of Gresham belongs to Robert Batt,[23] lord of the manor of eighteen villages.

[27] The remains of a fortified house called Gresham Castle are near the village, opposite the Chequers Pub.

[2] There was also a windmill in the parish, which stood on one of the highest points in the county of Norfolk, and it was reported in 1864 that "from it may be distinctly seen 36 churches and objects at a distance off 25 miles.