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Population
  
820 (2005) 849 (2011)

Country
  
England

Post town
  
Bury St Edmunds

Shire county
  
Suffolk

Region
  
East

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Postcode district
  
IP30

District
  
St Edmundsbury

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Great Whelnetham (sometimes Great Welnetham) is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around two miles south of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 820.

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Map of Great Whelnetham, Bury Saint Edmunds, UK

The parish also contains the hamlet of Cocks Green, and the village of Sicklesmere, with which Great Whelnetham is contiguous. Until the Beeching Axe, the area was served by Welnetham railway station on the Long Melford-Bury St Edmunds branch line.

Demography

According to the Office for National Statistics, at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001, Great Whelnetham had a population of 830 with 349 households, increasing to 849 in 348 households at the 2011 Census.

References

Great Whelnetham Wikipedia