PATTISHALL, a parish in the hundred of TOWCESTER, county of NORTHAMPTON, 4 miles (N.N.W.) from Towcester, containing 695 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage in two portions, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, respectively rated in the king's books at £6. 11. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown and the Rev. T. C. Welch, alternately. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. Thomas Young, in 1684, bequeathed houses and land, now producing an income of about £14 a year, for which six boys receive instruction, and four others are taught for an annuity of £5, paid from the funds of Foxley charity. The Jloman Watling-street passes through the parish.