WETHERDEN, a parish in the hundred of STOW, county of SUFFOLK, 4 miles (N. W.) from Stow-Market, containing 468 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £6.13.4., and in the patronage of the Crown, The church is dedicated to St. Mary.