South Elmham

South Elmham (also Southelmham) is a location in north Suffolk which was an ancient deanery dating back to the 7th century when it was given to the Bishop of East Anglia.[1] South Elmham constituted a "ferthing", i.e a quarter of Wangford Hundred. This area included the parishes of Homersfield and Flixton.[2]

  1. ^ "St Margaret, South Elmham St Margaret, Suffolk". CRSBI. The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  2. ^ Vincent Burrough Redstone (1912). "South Elmham Deanery" (PDF). Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology & History. XIV (Part 3): 323 to 331.