Helmingham nr. Weston Longville / Helmingham in Eynesford / Felmingham / Helmingeham

In his entry for "Helmingham and Morton" Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Morton, now called Morton on the Hill, was anciently an hamlet belonging to Helmingham, and included therein, and on that account is not mentioned in Domesday Book. The principal lordship in this town was then in William de Beaufoe Bishop of Thetford, possessed by Ailmar Bishop of Elmham, in King Edward's time, and was in that see in the Saxon age [...] Here were at the survey two churches, one belonging to this town [i.e., Helmingham] and the other most likely to Morton, which seems to have been dilapidated some centuries past." [NB: it appears, however, that the surviving church is that of St. Margaret in Morton [aka Morton-on-the-Hill]. There is only a single list of rectors in Blomefield (ibid.); it starts with the first recorded rector, "Martin, rector sans date", with the next one listed "1318, Thomas de la Chambre, instituted, presented by Thomas Athelwold of Weston." [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here] [cf. Index entry for Morton-on-the-Hill for the surviving church].