Use of 'went' as a noun
Yes, went is an obsolete English noun for a road, way, or course. Here's the Oxford English Dictionary, "went, n.":
- a. A course, path, way, or passage. Obsolete exc. dialect.
The word originates around the fourteenth century in Middle English, and is possibly connected to the verb wenden, to walk or travel (Middle English Dictionary, "went(e, n."). Back to the OED, this excerpt from Chaucer shows both the verb went and the noun went in the same line, indicating how they function differently:
c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame 182 In a forest, as they wente, At a turninge of a wente.
The latest usage cited is from about 1896, around the same time the deed you cite was written:
a1896 C. W. Bardsley Dict. Surnames (1901) 802 There are one or two wents, still so called, in my late parish [Ulverston].
Incidentally, the place name usage seems limited to referring to roads or courses. For instance, the village name and surname Wentworth comes from the Old English wintra (winter) and worð (enclosure) (Ancestry).