WITHERSFIELD, a parish in the hundred of RISBRIDGE, county of SUFFOLK, 2 miles (N.W. by N.) from Haverhill, containing 484 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £9.17.1., and in the patronage of G. T. W. H. Duffield, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.