Place:Oxwick and Pattesley, Norfolk, England

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Oxwick and Pattesley was an ecclesiastical (or ancient) parish and a civil parish formed from the two earlier ecclesiastical parishes of Oxwick and Pattesley. They were located south of the parish of Colkirk in the Launditch Hundred in the centre of Norfolk, England.

The original parishes were very small and could each be described as no more than a manor with a church. They became one ecclesiastical parish at an early unrecorded date and a civil parish in the 19th century. Oxwick and Pattesley was a member of Mitford and Launditch Rural District until 1935 when it was absorbed into Colkirk.

Descriptions of Oxwick and Pattesley follow. They have been redirected here.

Oxwick

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Oxwick is a hamlet in the English county of Norfolk. It lies close to the source of the River Wensum and lies one mile south of the village of Colkirk.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Oxwick from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1871-72:

"OXWICK, a parish in Mitford [registration] district, Norfolk; 4 miles S by W of Fakenham [railway] station. Post-town: Litcham, under Swaffham. Acres: 719. Real property: with Pattesley, £1, 883. Population of [Oxwick] alone: 66. Houses: 14. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £234. Patron: E. Blake, Esq. The church is old; and consists of nave and chancel, with bell-turret. Charities, £9."

Pattesley

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Pattesley is a very small village in the English county of Norfolk. It is located about one mile south of the village of Oxwick and consists of a few scattered houses. Since 1935 it has been part of the parish of Colkirk.

After the Norman conquest, William the Conqueror granted the village to Lord Peter de Valognes, who then let Roger de Pattesley administer it on his behalf. Pattesley was mentioned on the Domesday Book survey of 1086.

During Elizabethan times, it was briefly donated to Caius College (Cambridge) by Sir Christopher Heydon. The college exchanged the manor with Sir Roger Townshend of Raynham shortly after.

The village once supported a church consecrated to Saint John the Baptist, though this is recorded as only a remnant as early as 1831 and appears to have been abandoned in the 16th century, according to some sources. The church was later incorporated into a farmhouse, known as Pattesley House or Pattesley Cottage, now a Grade II* listed building.

Its recorded population in 1861 was only 10 people.

Research tips

• GENUKI provides a list of references for Oxwick and Pattesley. Some entries lead to free online transcriptions of registers and censuses.
• A map illustrating the individual parishes of Launditch Hundred may be useful.
• GENUKI also advises that the following lists for Norfolk are to be found in FamilySearch:

• England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997
• England, Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcripts, 1600-1812
• England, Norfolk Bishop's Transcripts, 1685-1941
• England, Norfolk Marriage Bonds, 1557-1915
• England, Norfolk Non-conformist Records, 1613-1901

• Ancestry.co.uk has the following lists as of 2018 (UK or worldwide Ancestry membership or library access required). With the exception of the index to wills these files are browsible images of the original documents. The files are separated by type and broken down into time periods (i.e., "Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812" is more than one file). The general explanatory notes are worth reading for those unfamiliar with English parish records.

• Index to wills proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich : and now preserved in the District Probate Registry at Norwich
• Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1579-1935
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1990
• Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940

• FindMyPast is another pay site with large collection of parish records. As of October 2018 they had 20 types of Norfolk records available to browse including Land Tax Records and Electoral Registers.