CRETINGHAM, a parish in the hundred of LOES, county of SUFFOLK, 4 miles (W. S. W.) from Framlingham, containing 375 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich,rated in the king's books at£9.10.10., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew.