ONLY - Doubly Thankful Village in Suffolk - South Elmham St Michael, Suffolk
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South Elmham St Michael, the only doubly thankful village in Suffolk, and one of only two in East Anglia.
Waymark Code: WM11QGV
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/03/2019
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Thankful Villages (
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"St Michael South Elmham is a village and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. One of the Saints, in 2010 its population was 60.
With no residents killed during World War I, the village is one of two Thankful Village in Suffolk. It is also one of only fourteen doubly thankful villages in England, in that it lost no residents in World War II either."
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