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Ilketshall St Margaret is a village and
civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is south of the market town of Bungay in the East Suffolk district. The parish is part of the area known as the Saints and had a population of 160 at the 2011 United Kingdom census.St Margaret, Ilketshall
Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
The parish is sparsely populated and situated to the west of the A144 road between Bungay and
Halesworth Halesworth is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in north-eastern Suffolk, England. The population stood at 4,726 in the 2011 Census. It lies south-west of Lowestoft, on a tributary of the River Blyth, upstream from Southwold. T ...
. It borders the parishes of Bungay, Ilketshall St John,
Ilketshall St Lawrence Ilketshall St Lawrence is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is south-east of the market town of Bungay and is part of a group of parishes with similar names known collectively as th ...
,
Spexhall Spexhall is a village and civil parish in the north-east of the English county of Suffolk. The village, which is dispersed in nature, is around north of the market town of Halesworth Halesworth is a market town, civil parish and electora ...
, Rumburgh, St Michael South Elmham, St Peter South Elmham, and Flixton. The parish church is dedicated to St Margaret. It dates from the early 11th century and features a round tower, one of around 40 round-tower churches in Suffolk.Knott S (2008
St Margaret, Ilketshall St Margaret
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The village is mentioned in W. G. Sebald's novel ''
The Rings of Saturn ''The Rings of Saturn'' (german: Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt - An English Pilgrimage) is a 1995 novel by the German writer W. G. Sebald. Its first-person narrative arc is the account by a nameless narrator (who resembles the ...
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Ilketshall St Margaret
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