WANGFORD, a parish in the hundred of LACKFORD,
county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (S. W, by W.) from
Brandon Ferry, containing 63 inhabitants. The living is
a discharged vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Brandon
Ferry, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of
Norwich, rated in the king's books at £9. 11. 8.
The church is dedicated to St. Denis. Robert Wright
and Joanna his widow, about 1644, bequeathed the
respective rent-charges of £30 and £10 towards the
establishment of a school for poor children of this
parish and those of Brandon, Downham, and Weeting:
the former gave also a school-room and house for the
master, and the latter certain land to provide for repairs.