STRADSETT, a parish in the hundred of CLACKCLOSE, county of NORFOLK, 3 miles (E. N. E.) from Downham-Market, containing 176 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the. archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £3.6. 8., and endowed with £200 royal bounty. T- P. Bagge, Esq. was patron in 1817. The church is dedicated to St. Mary: the east window exhibits the arms of the see of Ely, those of the East Angles, and of Bury and Dereham abbeys, in stained glass; the north window also is decorated with various emblems.