South Elmham St Margaret, Suffolk

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described South Elmham St Margaret like this:

ELMHAM (South)-St. Margaret, a parish in Wangford district, Suffolk; 2¾ miles SE of Homersfield r. station, and 4½ SSW of Bungay. It has a post office under Harlestone. Acres, 710. Real property, £1, 078. Pop., 152. Houses, 31. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of South Elmham-St. Peter, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £250. Patron, W. Adair, Esq. The church is chiefly early English, but has a Norman door and a later English tower; and is good.

South Elmham St Margaret through time

South Elmham St Margaret is now part of EAST SUFFOLK District. Click here for graphs and data of how EAST SUFFOLK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about South Elmham St Margaret itself, go to Statistics.

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