All Saints' South Elmham is a village and former

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in the north of the

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. The parish was combined with St Nicholas South Elmham in 1737 to form the parish of All Saints and St. Nicholas, South Elmham. It is south of the market town of

Bungay Bungay () is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in the English county of Suffolk.OS Explorer Map OL40: The Broads: (1:25 000) : . It lies in the Waveney Valley, west of Beccles on the edge of The Broads, and at the neck of a meand ...

in the East Suffolk district. It is one of the villages that make up the area around Bungay known as The Saints.All Saints & St. Nicholas, St Michael and St Peter, South Elmham
Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 2021-02-27. The main area of population in the village is clustered around All Saints Common, a large area of common land.South Elmham All Saints and St Nicholas
Suffolk Heritage Explorer,

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. Retrieved 2021-02-27. Suckling AI (1846) 'South Elmham, All Saints', in ''The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk: Volume 1'' pp.183–189. Ipswich: WS Crowell.
Available online
at British History Online. Retrieved 2021-02-27.) All Saints' was recorded as having a population of 192 in 1801 and 232 by the time of the

1851 United Kingdom census The United Kingdom Census of 1851 recorded the people residing in every household on the night of Sunday 30 March 1851, and was the second of the Census in the United Kingdom, UK censuses to include details of household members. However, this censu ...

. The combined population of the modern parish is around 130.Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk

, 2007-05-01. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
Archived
2008-12-19.) The parish church of All Saints survives, although it is formally redundant and cared for by the

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. It is a Grade I listed building, dates from the 12th-century and is one of around 40

round-tower church Round-tower churches are a type of church found mainly in England, mostly in East Anglia; of about 185 surviving examples in the country, 124 are in Norfolk, 38 in Suffolk, six in Essex, three in Sussex and two each in Cambridgeshire and Berkshi ...

es in Suffolk.Church of All Saints
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. Retrieved 2021-02-27.All Saints' Church, South Elmham, Suffolk

. Retrieved 2021-02-27.Knott S (2008
All Saints, South Elmham All Saints
Suffolk Churches. Retrieved 2021-02-27.All Saints, South Elmham
The Round Tower Churches Society. Retrieved 2021-02-27. Other than the parish church, the village has no services.

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{{authority control Villages in Suffolk Former civil parishes in Suffolk Waveney District