Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

ELMHAM (South)-St Nicholas, a parish in Wangford district, Suffolk; contiguous to South Elmham-All Saints. Post town, South Elmham-St. Margaret, under Harlestone. Acres, 450. Real property, with All Saints, £2, 704. Pop., 103. Houses, 18. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of South Elmham - All Saints, in the diocese of Norwich. There is no church.

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Travel writing

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South Elmham St Margaret 0 2
South Elmham St James 0 1
South Elmham All Saints 0 3
South Elmham St Cross 0 1
South Elmham St Peter 0 1
South Elmham St Michael 0 1
Rumburgh 0 2
Metfield 0 2
Homersfield 0 2
Ilketshall St Margaret 0 2
Withersdale 0 2
Mendham 0 2
Linstead Parva 0 2
Chediston 0 2
Wortwell 0 2
Wissett 0 2
Flixton 2 2
Ilketshall St Lawrence 0 2
Bungay 2 3
Linstead Magna 0 2