WANGFORD, a parish in the hundred of ELYTHING, county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (N. W. by N.) from Southwold, containing, with the hamlet of Henham, 746 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £400 royal bounty, and £1400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Earl of Stradbroke. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. A Cluniac priory, a cell to Thetford, was founded here before 1160, by Doudo Asini, and at the suppression had a revenue of £30. 9. 5.