WITHERSDALE, a parish in the hundred of HOXNE, county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (S. E. by E.) from Harleston, containing 168 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Fressingfield, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £6. 16. 8., and endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. The church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene.