Ilketshall St Margaret two village signs

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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the north of the

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Suffolk Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county ...

. It is south of the market town of

Bungay Bungay () is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England.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 th ...

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 A Census in the United Kingdom, census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years. The 2011 census was held in all countries of the UK on 27 March 2011. It was the first UK census which could be completed online via the Inter ...

.St Margaret, Ilketshall
Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 2021-02-22. The parish is sparsely populated and situated to the west of the

A144 road The A144 is an A road in the English county of Suffolk. It runs from the town of Bungay, close to the border with Norfolk, to the A12 road (England), A12 trunk road near the village of Darsham, passing through the market town of Halesworth. It ...

between Bungay and

Halesworth Halesworth is a market town, civil parish and Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, 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 tribut ...

. It borders the parishes of Bungay,

Ilketshall St John Ilketshall St John 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 the Saint ...

, Ilketshall St Lawrence,

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 Wards and ...

Rumburgh Rumburgh is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. It is north-west of the market town of Halesworth in the East Suffolk District. The population of the parish at the 2011 United Kingdom census was 327. The village is ce ...

St Michael South Elmham St Michael South Elmham is a village and civil parish in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is south of the market town of Bungay in the East Suffolk district. It is one of the villages surrounding Bungay which make up the area know ...

St Peter South Elmham St Peter South Elmham is a village and civil parish in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is around south of the market town of Bungay in the East Suffolk district. It is one of the villages surrounding Bungay which make up the are ...

, 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 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 Berks ...

es in Suffolk.Knott S (2008
St Margaret, Ilketshall St Margaret
Suffolk Churches. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
Round Tower Churches. Retrieved 2021-02-22. The village is mentioned in

W. G. Sebald Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was according to ''The New Yorker'' ”widely recog ...

's novel ''

The Rings of Saturn ''The Rings of Saturn'' ( - 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 author in typical Sebaldian fashion) on a walking tour ...

''.

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Ilketshall St Margaret
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