CREETING, or CREETING-WEST (ST-PETER), a parish in the hundred of STOW, county of SUFFOLK, 2 miles (N. by W.) from Needham-Market, containing 169 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £10. 2. 6., and in the patronage of George Paske, Esq.