Place:South Elmham All Saints and St. Nicholas, Suffolk, England

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NameSouth Elmham All Saints and St. Nicholas
Alt namesAll Saints and St. Nicholas, South Elmhamsource: Wikipedia
TypeParish (ancient), Civil parish
Coordinates52.392°N 1.423°E
Located inSuffolk, England     (1737 - )
See alsoSouth Elmham All Saints, Suffolk, Englandancient parish combined into it in 1737
South Elmham St. Nicholas, Suffolk, Englandancient parish combined into it in 1737
Wangford Hundred, Suffolk, Englandhundred in which it was located
Wangford Rural, Suffolk, Englandrural district of which it was part 1894-1935
Wainford Rural, Suffolk, Englandrural district of which it was part 1935-1974
Waveney District, Suffolk, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

South Elmham All Saints and St. Nicholas is a civil parish in the Waveney District of Suffolk, England, covering part of "The Saints" (see below). It includes the former parishes of South Elmham All Saints and South Elmham St. Nicholas. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 128, increasing to 233 at the 2011 Census.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of South Elmham All Saints from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"ELMHAM (South)-All Saints, a parish in Wangford [registration] district, Suffolk, 4 miles SE of Homersfield [railway] station, and 5½ NW by N of Halesworth. Post town: South Elmham-St. Margaret, under Harlestone. Acres: 1,150. Real property, with South Elmham-St. Nicholas: £2,704. Population: 197. Houses: 46. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of South Elmham-St. Nicholas, in the diocese of Norwich. Value: £270. Patron, Sir R. Adair, Bart. The church has a round tower, contains a square Norman font, and is tolerable."
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The "Saints" are a group of parishes (usually with a village) in Suffolk, England, between the rivers Blyth and Waveney near to the border with Norfolk. The parishes are all named after their general area of South Elmham (to the west) or Ilketstall (to the east) plus the saint to which their parish church is dedicated. Known by locals as 'up the Parishes' the area is found between the small towns of Halesworth, Harleston, Bungay and Beccles.

During World War II signposts were removed which resulted in many US Airman having difficulty finding the way back to RAF Bungay at Flixton and other local airfields including Metfield. Ilketshall is named after the 'hall of Alfkethill'. South Elmham comes from the Anglo-Saxon "hamlet where elms grew" and is first mentioned in Domesday Book of 1086 as "Almeham". North Elmham is in Norfolk, thirty miles away.

The formal names of each of "the Saints" parishes are as follows:

  • South Elmham All Saints (also known as All Saints, South Elmham--with or without the comma. It combined with South Elmham St. Nicholas in 1737)
  • South Elmham St. Cross (also known as St. Cross, South Elmham and as Sancroft St George or, simply, Sancroft).
  • South Elmham St. James (also known as St. James, South Elmham--with or without the comma)
  • South Elmham St. Margaret (also known as St. Margaret, South Elmham--with or without the comma)
  • South Elmham St. Mary (also known as St. Mary, South Elmham and, more often, as Homersfield)
  • South Elmham St. Michael (also known as St. Michael, South Elmham--with or without the comma)
  • South Elmham St. Nicholas (also known as St. Nicholas, South Elmham which combined with South Elmham All Saints in 1737 and where the church no longer exists)
  • South Elmham St. Peter (also known as St. Peter, South Elmham--with or without the comma)
  • South Elmham All Saints and St. Nicholas (also known as All Saints and St. Nicholas, South Elmham--with or without the comma, replaced South Elmham All Saints and South Elmham St. Nicholas in 1737)
  • Ilketshall St. Andrew (also known as St. Andrew, Ilketshall--with or without the comma)
  • Ilketshall St. John (also known as St. John, Ilketshall--with or without the comma)
  • Ilketshall St. Lawrence (also known as St. Lawrence, Ilketshall and Stone Street)
  • Ilketshall St. Margaret (also known as St. Margaret, Ilketshall--with or without the comma)
  • Flixton (near Bungay) is generally grouped within the Saints

Each of the villages were ancient or ecclesiastical parishes and to the present also constitutes a civil parish, apart from South Elmham All Saints and South Elmham St. Nicholas, which are now joined together in the South Elmham All Saints and St Nicholas parish within Waveney District.

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