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Wigginton is a village in the district of Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England. It lies about north of Tamworth. ==History== The name ''Wigginton'' is believed to come from Old English, and to mean ''Wicga's farm''.〔 The name was also sometimes written as ''Wiggington''. The village lies on a medieval trade route, the Portway, possibly used for transporting salt from the River Mease at Edingale to Tamworth.〔 Ecclesiastically Wigginton had been a chapelry attached to the parish of St Editha in Tamworth. For civil government it had been a township – the township was more than just the village, and included the hamlets of Comberford and Coton, the latter now part of the borough of Tamworth. In 1866 the township became a civil parish, and became part of Tamworth Rural District in 1894. In 1934 the civil parish was extended to become Wigginton and Hopwas, and became part of Lichfield Rural District.〔〔〔 In 1861 the population of Wigginton township was 670, on . The population figure included 84 inmates of the Tamworth workhouse, which at that time lay within the township. The population of the chapelry alone was 466.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wigginton, Staffordshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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