St Margaret South Elmham is a village and

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in the north of the

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. It is south-west 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 parishes surrounding Bungay which are known as The Saints.Flixton, St Margaret (South Elmham) and St Cross (South Elmham)
Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 2021-02-22. The parish has a population of around 100. It borders the parishes of Flixton, St Cross South Elmham, St Peter South Elmham and

All Saints and St Nicholas South Elmham All Saints and St Nicholas, South Elmham is a civil parish in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is south of the market town of Bungay and the same distance north-west of Halesworth and east of Harleston. The parish is in the Ea ...

. The parish council is operated jointly with Flixton and St Cross South Elmham.Flixton West & St Cross & St Margaret South Elmham Grouped Parish Council
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. Retrieved 2021-02-27. The village is spread along the road linking St Cross South Elmham with All Saints and St Nicholas South Elmham, with a small cluster of houses around St Magarets Green, an area of common land at the southern border of the parish.St Margaret - Village Profile
Flixton, St Cross & St Margaret South Elmham GPC. Retrieved 2021-02-28. Other than a village hall and the parish church, the village has no services. The village church is dedicated to St Margaret. It has a Norman south doorway, a 14th-century tower and was restored during the 1870s.Knott S (2008

Suffolk Churches. Retrieved 2021-02-28. Suckling AI (1846) 'South Elmham, St Margaret', in ''The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk: Volume 1'', pp.221–226. Ipswich: WS Crowell.
Available online
at British History Online. Retrieved 2021-02-28.) The church is a Grade I listed building.Church of St Margaret
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. Retrieved 2021-02-28. South Elmham Hall, a medieval moated site and former palace of the

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, is on the eastern edge of the parish, extending into St Cross South Elmham. The site is a

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and the hall a Grade I listed building.Moated site and associated fishponds of a bishop's palace at South Elmham Hall
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. Retrieved 2021-02-28.

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