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Wigmore is a suburb/village in the Unitary Authority of Medway, in Kent, England. ==History== The placename is attested in 1275 as ''Wydemere'', from an Old English '' *wīd-mere'' "broad pool".〔 "Wigmore" ''A Dictionary of British Place-Names. A. D. Mills. Oxford University Press, 2003. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. () 〕 A sparsely-populated hamlet and farming area until the 20th Century, Wigmore was briefly the site of a smallpox isolation hospital (Alexandra Hospital) from 1902, and began to be developed as a village from 1906 when the 365-acre Wigmore agricultural estate was partitioned and sold as plots, initially as smallholdings (hence the local “Smallholders Club”)〔http://www.smallholdersclub.org/〕 and rural shanties for Medway families. The first local church - St Matthews - dates back to 1925;〔http://www.stmattswigmore.org.uk/Groups/190758/St_Matthews_Wigmore/Your_church/past_and_present/past_and_present.aspx 〕 a prefab Evangelical church〔http://www.wigmorefreechurch.org.uk/3ArmyHuts.htm〕 was opened later on. Now a fully suburbanised village within south Gillingham, the area has a community primary school,〔http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupID=392917 〕 medical centre,〔http://www.wigmoremedicalcentre.co.uk/〕 and local football team, Wigmore Youth F.C.〔http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/wigmoreyouthfc/〕 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「Wigmore, Kent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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