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The village is formed from the meeting of two roads, B1077 from the south-west to the north and B1079 from the south-east. Helmingham Hall is 500 metres west of this junction.
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Its village church of St Mary's was first built as the estate church for the Hall. Sited on the edge of the park, it is filled with memorials to several generations of the
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of England. A Lionel Tollemache married the heiress of the Helmingham family so acquiring this estate in the 15th century.
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The village was the birthplace of Faith Emmeline Backhouse, mother of the war poet
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The church at Helmingham, St Mary's, is the church featured in BBC sitcom
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have been seated here from an early period after settling for a while at
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garden unearthed a cemetery, possibly Roman, containing some 25 graves.
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The village appears never to have had a public house.
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Helmingham is located in Suffolk
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