Wainscott is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Suffolk County, New York on the South Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 628.
Wainscott is in the southwest corner of the town of East Hampton. Wainscott is home to the only public one-room school house operating in New York State. The hamlet was named after a village north of Maidstone, England, an area immortalized in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.
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