LINSTEAD, or LINSTEAD-LOWER (PARVA), a parish in the hundred of BLYTHING, county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (W.) from Halesworth, containing 164 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Lord Huntingfield. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret.