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| Helmingham | |
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 St Mary’s Church, Helmingham | |
  Helmingham Location within Suffolk | |
| Population | 186 (2011 Census)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TM1857 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Stowmarket |
| Postcode district | IP14 |
| Dialling code | 01473 |
| UK Parliament | |
Helmingham is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, 12 miles (20 km) east of Stowmarket, and 12 miles north (20 km) of Ipswich. It has a population of 170, increasing to 186 at the 2011 Census. It retains the same name by which it was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, namely Helmingheham, meaning 'the village of Helm's people'.[2]
Helmingham Hall, a large red brick quadrangular mansion, dates from the reign of Henry VIII. The ancient family of Tollemache have been seated here from an early period after settling for a while at Bentley soon after the Norman Conquest of England. A Lionel Tollemache married the heiress of the Helmingham family so acquiring this estate in the 15th century.
The village was the birthplace of Faith Emmeline Backhouse, mother of the war poet John Gillespie Magee Jr.
In 1900, excavations in the Rectory garden unearthed a cemetery, possibly Roman, containing some 25 graves.[3]
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.232.
- ^ Campaign for Real Ale about Helmingham