Place Name
Directional. The road leading to Wanstead. The name Wanstead can be traced back to shortly before the Norman Conquest of 1066. Written as Wænstede sometime around 1050, it come from the Old English words wœnn meaning lump or wæn wagon and stede meaning settlement so either a settlement by a hillock or mound, to a place that wagons were kept. At the time of the Conquest it was written Wenstede and in 1086 as Wenesteda’.
