Located around two miles south of Bury St Edmunds, in 2005 its population was 180.

Until the Beeching Axe, the area was served by Welnetham railway station on the Long Melford-Bury St Edmunds branch line.

A Tudor house in Little Whelnetham, The Crutched Friars, is believed to have been part of the priory and is now a private residence.

[5] According to the Office for National Statistics, at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001, Little Whelnetham had a population of 188 with 76 households.

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