WANGFORD, a parish, with W. village and Henham hamlet, in Blything district, Suffolk; 5 miles E by N of Halesworth. It has a head post-office.‡ Acres, 2,603. Real property, £4,372. Pop., 862. Houses, 185. The property is divided among a few. A Cluniac priory, a cell to Thetford, was founded here before 1160, by Doudo Asini. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £79. Patron, the Earl of Stradbroke. The church was restored in 1865. There are chapels for Independents and Primitive Methodists, a national school, and charities £5.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))