PAWLETT, a parish in the northern division of the hundred of PETHERTON, county of SOMERSET, 5 miles (N.) from Bridg-water, containing 529 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £10. 17. 11., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The navigable river Parret bounds the parish on the.east and south.