LINSTEAD (MAGNA), a parish in the hundred of BLYTHING, county of SUFFOLK, 4 miles (W. by S.) from Halesworth, containing 103 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Lord Huntingfield. The church is dedicated to St. Peter.