Wangford with Henham is a civil parish in the East Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. It is around east of Halesworth, north-west of Southwold and south of Beccles.Wangford Conservation Area, Waveney District Council, 2009, p.5. Republished by East Suffolk District Council. Retrieved 8 February 2020. 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.Wangford with Henham, Healthy Suffolk, 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2020. 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 . The current parish was formed on 1 April 1987 from the parishes of Wangford and Henham.The Waveney (Parishes) Order 1987 , Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 17 January 2020. It borders the parishes of Blyford, Blythburgh, Frostenden, Reydon, Sotherton and Uggeshall. Until 2019 it was in Waveney district.
At the 2011 United Kingdom census the parish had a population of 591, reduced from a mid 2005 estimate of 640.Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk (Archived, 19 December 2008.), Suffolk County Council, 1 May 2007. Retrieved 19 April 2009 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.
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