WOODBASTWICK, a parish in the hundred of
WALSHAM, county of NORFOLK, 5 J miles (N. W.) from
Acle, containing 236 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, with the rectory of Panxworth annexed,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich,
rated in the king's books at £6, and in the patronage
of John Cator, Esq. The church is dedicated to St.
Fabian and St. Sebastian; the steeple was built about
1518.