| Official Name: | St Michael South Elmham |
| Country: | England |
| Region: | East of England |
| Static Image Name: | St Michael South Elmham St Michael - geograph.org.uk - 1770890.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | St Michael's church |
| Area Total Km2: | 2.4 |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population: | 60 |
| Population Ref: | (2005 est.)[2] |
| Os Grid Reference: | TM340840 |
| Coordinates: | 52.404°N 1.438°W |
| Post Town: | Bungay |
| Postcode Area: | NR |
| Postcode District: | NR35 |
| Dial Code: | 01986 |
| Constituency Westminster: | Waveney |
| Shire District: | East Suffolk |
| Shire County: | Suffolk |
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St Michael South Elmham is a village and civil parish in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It is 4miles south of the market town of Bungay in the East Suffolk district. It is one of the villages surrounding Bungay which make up the area known as The Saints.[3]
The parish is sparsely populated with an estimated population of around 60.[2] It borders the parishes of St Peter South Elmham, All Saints and St Nicholas South Elmham, Ilketshall St Margaret and Rumburgh. The parish council operates jointly with All Saints and St Nicholas and St Michael.[3]
With no residents killed during World War I, the village is one of two Thankful Village in Suffolk. It is one of only fourteen doubly thankful villages in England, in that it lost no residents in World War II either.[3] [4]