METTINGHAM, a parish in the hundred of WANGFORD,
county of SUFFOLK, 2 miles (E.) from Bungay,
containing 349 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese
of Norwich, rated in the Icing's books at £6. 17. 3L
Mrs. Safford was patroness in 1824. The church fs
dedicated to All Saints. In the reign of Richard II., a
master and chaplains were translated, by royal license,
from the college of Raveningham, in Norfolk, to Mettingham
castle; in 1535, their revenue amounted to
£202. 7 5. The navigable river Waveney runs on
the north of this parish.