On September 1st, 1933 an article describing the village of South Elmham All Saints-cum-St Nicholas appeared in the Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury. The author was 'Yeoman', the tag of a regular contributor to the newspaper on the history of local communities. In fact, this was his article No 323 of what were described as 'Pocket Histories of Suffolk Parishes'. In the article, Yeoman set out the reasons why the particular community he was writing about was representative of a unique group of nine parishes in the English county of Suffolk on its north eastern border with Norfolk. Together with the four eastern parishes of Ilketshall, each one dedicated to a different saint, local people refer to them as 'The Saints'.