Wangford with Henham

{{Short description|Civil parish in Suffolk, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

| official_name = Wangford with Henham

| country = England

| region = East of England

| static_image_name = Wangford (nr Southwold, Suffolk) SS Peter and St Paul's Church - geograph.org.uk - 68607.jpg

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| static_image_caption = Wangford church

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| area_total_km2 = 11

| area_footnotes = [https://www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk/assets/Planning/Neighbourhood-Planning/Town-and-village-profiles/Wangford-with-Henham-Village-Profile.pdf Village profile: Wangford with Henham], East Suffolk District Council, October 2019. Retrieved 2020-02-08.

| population = 591

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| post_town = Beccles

| postcode_area = NR

| postcode_district = NR34

| dial_code = 01502

| constituency_westminster = Suffolk Coastal

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| shire_district = East Suffolk

| shire_county = Suffolk

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Wangford with Henham is a civil parish in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is around {{convert|5.5|mi|km}} east of Halesworth, {{convert|3|mi|km}} north-west of Southwold and {{convert|8.5|mi|km}} south of Beccles.[https://www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk/assets/Planning/Design-and-Conservation/Conservation-Area-Appraisals/Wangford-Conservation-Area-Character-Appraisal-with-Management-Plan.pdf Wangford Conservation Area], Waveney District Council, 2009, p.5. Republished by East Suffolk District Council. Retrieved 2020-02-08. The parish includes the village of Wangford, the hamlet of Barnaby Green and Henham Park, the site of the Latitude Festival and a variety of other events.[https://www.healthysuffolk.org.uk/uploads/Wangford_with_Henham-_Parish_Profile.pdf Wangford with Henham], Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 2020-02-08. The Henham estate, owned by the Rous family, later the Earls of Stradbroke, owned much of the land in the parish and were responsible for many of the buildings in the area.Wangford Conservation Area, pp.9–11, p.21.

The parish has an area of {{convert|11|km2|mi2}}. The current parish was formed on 1 April 1987 from the parishes of Wangford and Henham.[https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/12764/waveney-parishes-order-1987.pdf The Waveney (Parishes) Order 1987], Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 2020-01-17. It borders the parishes of Blyford, Blythburgh, Frostenden, Reydon, Sotherton and Uggeshall.

At the 2011 United Kingdom census the parish had a population of 591, reduced from a mid 2005 estimate of 640.{{efn|2011 United Kingdom census population data from the Office for National Statistics used a 'best-fit' method and, as a result, does not necessarily map exactly to parish boundaries.}}[http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/38314C3E-02A0-4515-92FE-8909C6FDB3A3/0/Parishestimates01to05.pdf Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20081219023551/http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/38314C3E-02A0-4515-92FE-8909C6FDB3A3/0/Parishestimates01to05.pdf Archived], 2008-12-19.), Suffolk County Council, 2007-05-01. Retrieved 2009-04-19 A 2016 estimate suggested that the population had continued to decline to a total of 546.

The A12 runs through the east of the parish, bypassing the village of Wangford. The A145 road runs through to the west of Henham Park through the western part of the parish, whilst the A1095 marks the southern edge of the parish, linking Southwold to the A12 at Blythburgh and the B1126 runs from Wangford to Reydon and Southwold.