Wangford with Henham, Suffolk
Historical Description
Wangford, a parish, with Wangford village and Henham hamlet, in Suffolk, 3 miles from Southwold station on the G.E.R., and 7 E by N of Halesworth. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Acreage, 3285; population of the civil parish, 565; of the ecclesiastical, with Henham and Reydon, 1079. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. A Cluniac priory, a cell to Thetford, was founded here before 1160 by Dondo Asini. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich, with Henham and Reydon annexed; net value, £160 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Stradbroke. The church is an ancient edifice of flint in the Perpendicular style, and was restored and enlarged in 1875. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Wangford St. Peter | |
Hundred | Blything | |
Poor Law union | Blything |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wangford with Henham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wangford (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Wangford with Henham are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Suffolk papers online: