PATTESLEY, a parish in the hundred of LAUNDITCH, county of NORFOLK, 4 miles (S. S. W.) from Fakenham. The population is returned with Oxwick. The living is a sinecure rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Mattishall, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £8. 18. 9., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty. The church, which has fallen into ruins, was dedicated to St. John the Baptist.