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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described South Elmham St Peter like this:
ELMHAM (South)-St. Peter, a parish in Wangford district, Suffolk, 3½ miles S by W of Bungay town and r. station. Post town, South Elmham-St. Margaret, under Harlestone. Acres, 900. Real property, £904. Pop., 88. Houses, 20. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of South Elmham-St. Margaret, in the diocese of Norwich. The church has a Norman door and sedilia.
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South Elmham St Michael | 0 | 1 |
South Elmham St Margaret | 0 | 2 |
Ilketshall St Margaret | 0 | 2 |
South Elmham St Nicholas | 0 | 1 |
South Elmham All Saints | 0 | 3 |
Flixton | 2 | 2 |
South Elmham St Cross | 0 | 1 |
Bungay | 2 | 3 |
Rumburgh | 0 | 2 |
Ilketshall St Lawrence | 0 | 2 |
South Elmham St James | 0 | 1 |
Ilketshall St John | 0 | 2 |
Homersfield | 0 | 2 |
Ilketshall St Andrew | 0 | 3 |
Earsham | 0 | 3 |
Metfield | 0 | 2 |
Mettingham | 1 | 2 |
Wissett | 0 | 2 |
Wortwell | 0 | 2 |
Spexhall | 0 | 2 |