Description
Withersdale, a parish in Suffolk, 3 miles SE of Harleston station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Harleston; money order and telegraph office, Harleston. In 1885 the greater part of this parish was for civil purposes added to that of Mendham, and the remainder to Metfield. The living is a rectory, annexed to Fressingfield. The church is a small and ancient building of rubble in the Norman style. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
