In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wiggington like this:
WIGGINTON, a township and a chapelry in Tamworth parish, Stafford. The township lies 1¾ mile N of Tamworth r. station; contains three hamlets, and Tamworth workhouse; and has a post-office under Tamworth. Acres, 3,470. Real property, £9,052. Pop. in 1861, 670; of whom 84 were in the workhouse. ...
Houses, 127. The property is chiefly divided among six. There are paper mills.—The chapelry is less extensive than the township, and was constituted in 1856. Pop., 466. Houses, 82. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £110.* Patron, the Vicar of Tamworth. The church was rebuilt in 1777, and enlarged in 1830. There are national schools.
Wiggington through time
Wiggington is now part of Tamworth district. Click here for graphs and data of how Tamworth has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wiggington itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wiggington, in Tamworth and Staffordshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8614
Date accessed: 18th April 2024
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