Whicham is a hamlet and civil parish in Cumberland, Cumbria, England.

[2] The parish includes the villages of Silecroft and Kirksanton and the hamlets of Whicham and Whitbeck.

It lies north of Millom on the west coast of Cumbria.

The parish includes the hill Black Combe with a height of 600 metres (2,000 ft), one of Alfred Wainwright's "Outlying Fells".

[5] There is a parish council, the lowest level of local government.