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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
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are the largest settlements in the former hundred. The hundred also contained the thirteen parishes (Ilketshall, South Elmham, Flixton and
Homersfield) collectively known as
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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.
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on the
Waveney, on the eastern side of the bow of the river which surrounds the town of Bungay, below which it flows through the rich level pastures eastwards towards
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was built on the east side of the road. The ford was presumably in use before the full embankment of the river.
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Wainford Mill, at the
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to derive from an alternative name for the
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Hundred consisted of the following 27 parishes:
543:, Fourth Edition (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1960), p. 496.
40:, England, consisting of 34,679 acres (140.34 km).
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166:. On the north bank is the parish of
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135:in West Suffolk) from Old English
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539:'Wangford hd Sf' in E. Ekwall,
53:Mutford and Lothingland Hundred
197:Wangford Hundred, (Kirby 1766)
1:
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524:The Place-Names of Suffolk
147:, which in 1491 occurs as
436:South Elmham, St Nicholas
416:South Elmham, St Margaret
426:South Elmham, St Michael
386:South Elmham, All Saints
697:Mutford and Lothingland
153:Wainford Rural District
503:William White (1844).
446:South Elmham, St Peter
406:South Elmham, St James
396:South Elmham, St Cross
306:Ilketshall St Margaret
296:Ilketshall St Lawrence
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276:Ilketshall St Andrew
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622:Hundreds of Suffolk
554:"Hundred: Wangford"
71:soil. The towns of
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466:Willingham St Mary
286:Ilketshall St John
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356:Shadingfield
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578:1841 Census
266:Homersfield
168:Ditchingham
804:52.4; 1.45
722:Thedwestry
702:Plomesgate
677:Hartismere
647:Blackbourn
487:References
476:Worlingham
366:Shipmeadow
346:Ringsfield
326:North Cove
316:Mettingham
105:inter alia
101:Wanneforda
99:Listed as
81:The Saints
751:Boroughs
732:Thredling
707:Risbridge
376:Sotterley
176:mill race
149:Waynforth
137:wægn-ford
129:Weineford
125:Weinforde
121:Wainforda
107:) in the
817:Category
737:Wangford
687:Lackford
662:Carlford
652:Blything
620:Ancient
564:26 April
336:Redisham
189:Parishes
133:Wangford
87:Wainford
30:Wangford
787:52°24′N
770:Sudbury
765:Ipswich
742:Wilford
727:Thingoe
712:Samford
672:Cosford
667:Colneis
642:Babergh
256:Flixton
246:Ellough
226:Beccles
216:Barsham
207:Parish
164:Beccles
77:Beccles
49:Norfolk
38:Suffolk
34:hundred
790:1°27′E
456:Weston
236:Bungay
145:Bungay
73:Bungay
32:was a
682:Hoxne
528:p. 38
480:1727
460:1551
410:1302
400:1301
390:1150
380:1594
360:1370
350:1700
330:1082
320:1706
310:2093
280:1696
260:1762
250:1074
240:2090
230:1994
220:1871
717:Stow
692:Loes
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470:890
450:576
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430:816
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370:800
340:733
300:988
290:743
270:981
180:silo
172:leat
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