HELMINGHAM, a parish in the hundred of BOSMERE-and-CLAYDON, county of SUFFOLK, 5 miles (S.S.E.) from Debenham, containing 325 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £18, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.