Editing Wanstead (section)

===Toponymy===
The place name is probably of Saxon origin and is first recorded in a charter of 1065 as Wenstede.  The English Place-Names Society derives the name from the [[Old English|Anglo-Saxon]] words ''waenn'', meaning a hill or mound, and ''stede'', a place or settlement. According to an alternative explanation, the first element means "wain" or "wagon", but the meaning of the full compound is not clear.<ref>The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names, 4th edition. Eilert Ekwall 1990</ref> A place in Essex, in 1460, has a name spelt as "Waynsted".<ref>Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; year: 1460; top line of the second entry; image: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no800/bCP40no800dorses/IMG_0606.htm</ref>