A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
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.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Tamworth AP/Tn/CP Wiggington CP/Ch Staffordshire AncC |
| Place: | Wiggington |
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