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Wangford is a civil parish in the Forest Heath district of the English county of Suffolk. The RAF Lakenheath airbase is in the east of the parish with the main runway extending into it.〔(St Denis, Wangford ), Suffolk churches website. Retrieved 2014-03-03.〕 The parish today consists of only a few scattered buildings including a church and 16th century hall and has one of the lowest populations of any parish in Suffolk with only seven residents at the 2001 census. Wangford is located around east of Lakenheath and south-west of Brandon, close to the A1065 road. ==History== 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〔(Monument No. 380305 ), Pastscape, English Heritage. Retrieved 2014-03-04.〕 and there is also evidence of Iron Age and Romano-British inhabitation.〔(Monument No. 380285 ), Pastscape, English Heritage. Retrieved 2014-03-04.〕 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.〔(Monument No. 380287 ), Pastscape, English Heritage. Retrieved 2014-03-04.〕 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.〔(Monument No. 380296 ), Pastscape, English Heritage. Retrieved 2014-03-04.〕 At the Domesday survey Wangford was recorded as Wamforda.〔(Wangford (near Brandon) ), ''Domesday book online''. Retrieved 2014-03-04.〕 It was in Lackford Hundred and had 29 households.〔(Wangford ), ''Open Domesday''. Retrieved 2014-03-04.〕 In the mid 19th century the parish had a population of 48〔Lewis,Samuel A. (1848) ''(A Topographical Dictionary of England ), pp. 457-461. Date accessed: 2014-03-03.〕 and in 1881 the population was 56.〔Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk, 1883, p.1050. (Transcript available online ). Retrieved 2014-03-03〕 The western edge of the parish was used as part of the site of RAF Lakenheath during the Second World War. The airfield, which is still in use as a United States Air Forces in Europe operated base, was built beginning in 1940, initially as a decoy airfield. In the post war period it was used initially as an RAF base with operational command transferring to the USAF in 1948. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wangford, Forest Heath」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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