South Elmham St Margaret, Suffolk

Historical Description

Elmham (South) St Margaret, a parish in Suffolk, 2½ miles SE from Homersfield station on the G.E.R., and 4½ SSW from Buugay. It has a post office under Harleston; money order and telegraph office, Harleston. Acreage, 595; population, 123. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of South Elmham St Peter, in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £244. Patron, Sir Hugh Edward Adair, Bart. The church is chiefly Perpendicular, but has a Norman door and a Later English tower.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for South Elmham St Margaret from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Elmham, South (St. Margaret))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Suffolk papers online:

• The Ipswich Journal
• East Suffolk Mercury and Lowestoft Weekly News
• Bury and Norwich Post
• Bury Free Press