Wangford, Forest Heath
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 St Denis' church, Wangford |
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| Wangford shown within Suffolk | |
| Population | 7 (2001) |
| OS grid reference | TL751835 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BRANDON |
| Postcode district | IP27 |
| Dialling code | 01842 |
| EU Parliament | East of England |
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Wangford was, until 2015, a civil parish in the Forest Heath district of the English county of Suffolk. The RAF Lakenheath airbase is in the east of the former parish area with the main runway extending into it. Wangford is located around 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Lakenheath and 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Brandon, close to the A1065 road.
Before it was combined with Brandon in 2015, the parish consisted of only a few scattered buildings including a church and 16th century hall and had one of the lowest populations of any parish in Suffolk with only seven residents at the 2001 census. From the 2011 Census the ONS included the minimal population in the civil parish of Brandon, and in 2015 the parish was formally combined with the town of Brandon.
There is evidence of the parish being populated since prehistoric times. Palaeolithic tools such as handaxes, arrowheads and flint scrapers have been found in the parish and there is also evidence of Iron Age and Romano-British inhabitation. A hoard of 3000 silver and bronze coins, dating from the reign of the Roman Emperor Gallienus (AD 253-68), was discovered in a jar on Wangford Heath. The jar is in Moyse's Hall Museum, Bury St Edmunds, but the coins are missing.
A Saxon inhumation burial has also been discovered in the parish. Glass and amber beads and a bronze gilded 'hinged handle' from the site are in the British Museum and a large cruciform brooch is in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
At the Domesday survey Wangford was recorded as Wamforda. It was in Lackford Hundred and had 29 households. In the mid 19th century the parish had a population of 48 and in 1881 the population was 56.
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