Place:Pattingham, Staffordshire, England

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Pattingham is a village in the non-metropolitan district of South Staffordshire, close to the border with Shropshire. The village is 7 miles to the west of Wolverhampton and 7-1/2 miles east of Bridgnorth.

Pattingham was originally a farming community but expanded housing in the mid- to late-20th century has led to it becoming a dormitory village for the West Midlands conurbation. The population of the village is around 2,500.

Pattingham House was designed by William Baker of Audlem about 1760, and was formerly known as The Torque House after an iron age gold torc which was discovered in the grounds.

A mile outside Pattingham is Rudge Hall, a Grade II listed house, which belonged to the Wight-Boycott family during the 19th century.

Pattingham was part of the Shropshire hundred of Stottesden until 1866 when it was transferred to the South Seisdon Hundred of Staffordshire. Since the inception of the South Staffordshire District in 1974 it shares a civil parish with the neighbouring community of Patshull. The modern civil parish is Pattingham and Patshull.