WANTISDEN, a parish in the hundred of PLOMESGATE, county of SUFFOLK, 4 miles (N. W. by W.) from Orford, containing 128 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £1200 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of N. Barnardiston, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.