BARTON-BENDISH, a village in the hundred of CLACKCLOSE, county of NORFOLK, 4 miles (N. by E.) from Stoke-Ferry, containing 440 inhabitants. It formerly comprised three parishes, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, viz., St. Andrew's, St. Mary's, and All Saints'; the two latter have been united, and form a consolidated rectory, rated in the king's books at £11, and in the patronage of Sir H. Berney, Bart.; the living of St.Andrew's is a rectory, rated at £ 14, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church of All Saints' is desecrated. Barton derives its distinguishing name from a dyke, called Bendish, constructed here by the Saxons, as a boundary line to the hundred. Richard Jones, in 1783, bequeathed £200 for the instruction of poor children belonging to the united parishes.