KIRSTEAD, a parish in the hundred of LODDON, county of NORFOLK, 7 miles (N. N. W.) from Bungay, containing 230 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with that of Langhale, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £10, and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Caius College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret.