ONLY - Doubly Thankful Village in Suffolk - South Elmham St Michael, Suffolk - Superlatives on Waymarking.com

Thankful Villages (visit link) - "These were the parishes which lost none of their young men to the killing fields of the First World War. If you consider that there are coming on for 20,000 villages in England, and all but 31 of them lost somebody, you can see why they might be thankful. St Michael is the only one in Suffolk; there are only two in all East Anglia, the other being at Ovington in Norfolk."

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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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Type of documentation of superlative status: Various internet sources Location of coordinates: St Michael's church Web Site: Not listed

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