DEPDEN, a parish in the hundred of RISBRIDGE, county of SUFFOLK, 7 miles (S.W.) from Bury-St. Edmund's, containing 319 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £ 10. 11. 5., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.