Wangford

Coordinates: 52°21′18″N 1°37′19″E / 52.355°N 1.622°E / 52.355; 1.622

Wangford is a village in Suffolk, England, just off the A12 trunk road on the edge of the Henham Park estate just outside Southwold.

Wangford is connected to the rest of Suffolk by two main roads. At one side of the village the road leads straight on to the A12 (dual carriage way), and the other side of the village leads to Reydon, and Southwold (B1126).

Wangford has approximately 640 residents, reducing to 591 at the 2011 Census. and the main village covers about 50 acres (200,000 m²). The parish also includes Henham Park and the hamlet of Barnaby Green.

At the centre of the village there is a community centre, containing a reasonable sized hall, a bar, a kitchen and a small games room. There is also a shop, post-office, two pubs - the Angel Inn and the Plough, a farm shop, a playing field and allotments, tennis courts and the local vet.

The church of St Peter and St Paul

Wangford Hundred

Wangford was a hundred of Suffolk, England, consisting of 34,679 acres (140.34 km²).

Wangford Hundred was an area of around twelve miles (19 km) from west to east and five across. The River Waveney formed its northern border separating it from Norfolk. To the east lay Mutford and Lothingland Hundred, to the south Blything Hundred and to the west Hoxne Hundred.

It is a fertile district, particularly in the broad vale of the Waveney with its rich marshes for feeding cattle. On the south side of the vale the land becomes hilly with an agricultural region of predominantly loam soil. The towns of Bungay and Beccles are the largest settlements in the former hundred. The hundred also contained the thirteen parishes (Ilketshall, South Elmham, Flixton and Homersfield) collectively known as The Saints.

Listed as Wanneforda (inter alia) in the Domesday Book, the name is believed to derive from an alternative name for the Waveney and thus to mean "ford across the Waveney". A total of 24 places with a population of around 1025 households are mentioned in the Domesday Book. It is not to be confused with the two other Wangfords in Suffolk.