# Helmingham
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{{Short description|Village in Suffolk, England}}
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{{Infobox UK place
| official_name= Helmingham
| country= England
| region= East of England
| os_grid_reference= TM1857
| coordinates = {{coord|52.173|1.203|display=inline,title}}
| population= 186
| population_ref= (2011 Census)[{{cite web|url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124451&c=Helmingham&d=16&e=62&g=6466402&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1471860935795&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=22 August 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}]
| post_town= Stowmarket
| postcode_area= IP
| postcode_district= IP14
| dial_code= 01473
| shire_county= [Suffolk](/source/Suffolk)
| shire_district= [Mid Suffolk](/source/Mid_Suffolk)
| constituency_westminster= [Central Suffolk and North Ipswich](/source/Central_Suffolk_and_North_Ipswich_(UK_Parliament_constituency))
| hide_services= Yes
|static_image = Helmingham - Church of St Mary.jpg
|static_image_width = 280px
|static_image_caption=St Mary’s Church, Helmingham
}}
'''Helmingham''' is a village and [civil parish](/source/civil_parish) in the [Mid Suffolk](/source/Mid_Suffolk) district of [Suffolk](/source/Suffolk), [England](/source/England), 12 miles (20 km) east of [Stowmarket](/source/Stowmarket), and 12 miles north (20 km) of [Ipswich](/source/Ipswich). It has a population of 170, increasing to 186 at the 2011 Census. It retains the same name by which it was recorded in the [Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book) of 1086, namely ''Helmingheham'', meaning 'the village of Helm's people'.[[Eilert Ekwall](/source/Eilert_Ekwall), ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names'', p.232.]
[Helmingham Hall](/source/Helmingham_Hall), a large red brick quadrangular mansion, dates from the reign of Henry VIII. The ancient family of [Tollemache](/source/Tollemache_family) have been seated here from an early period after settling for a while at [Bentley](/source/Bentley%2C_Suffolk) soon after the [Norman Conquest](/source/Norman_Conquest) of England. A Lionel Tollemache married the heiress of the Helmingham family so acquiring this estate in the 15th century.
The village was the birthplace of Faith Emmeline Backhouse, mother of the war poet [John Gillespie Magee Jr.](/source/John_Gillespie_Magee_Jr.)
In 1900, excavations in the [Rectory](/source/Clergy_house) garden unearthed a cemetery, possibly Roman, containing some 25 graves.[[http://www.suffolkcamra.co.uk/pubs/place/492 Campaign for Real Ale about Helmingham]]
==Present day==
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.
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 [Tollemache family](/source/Tollemache_family), including a large tomb with a verse describing four generations of the family.
The village appears never to have had a public house.