Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ELMHAM (South)-St. Margaret

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.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Wangford RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: South Elmham St Margaret

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