RYSTON, a parish in the hundred of CLACKCLOSE, county of NORFOLK, 1 mile (S. S. E.) from Downham- Market, containing 25 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, with that of Roxham, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £ 800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich. The church is dedicated to St. Michael.