Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described South Elmham St Michael like this:

ELMHAM (South)-St. Michael, a parish in Wangford district, Suffolk; 4¾ miles ESE of Homersfield r. station, and 5½ NNW of Hailesworth. Post town, Rumburgh, under Halesworth. Acres, 930. Real property, £1, 282. Pop., 156. Houses, 27. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the p. curacy of Rumburgh, in the diocese of Norwich, The church is tolerable.

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