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Wangford was a hundred of Suffolk, England, consisting of 34,679 acres (140.34 km2).
Wangford Hundred was an area of around twelve miles (19 km) from west to east and five across. The River Waveney formed its northern border separating it from Norfolk. To the east lay Mutford and Lothingland Hundred, to the south Blything Hundred and to the west Hoxne Hundred.
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 loam soil. The towns of Bungay and Beccles are the largest settlements in the former hundred. The hundred also contained the thirteen parishes collectively known as "The Saints"--many with names prefaced with Ilketshall or South Elmham.
Listed as Wanneforda (inter alia) in the Domesday Book of 1086, the name is believed to derive from an alternative name for the Waveney and thus to mean "ford across the Waveney". Within Wangford Hundred a total of 24 places with a population of around 1025 households are mentioned in the Domesday Book. There are two villages named Wangford in other parts of Suffolk that shoiuld not be confused with the hundred.
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