RINGSHALL, a parish in the hundred of BOSMERE-and-CLAYDON, county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (W. S.W.) from Needham, containing 304 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £.11. 18. l., and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Pembroke College, Oxford.