Wigginton

Other current and historical names

Wiggington
Wigentone

Built-Up Area: Wigginton
Parish/Community: Wigginton
District/Borough: Dacorum
County: Hertfordshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°46'59"N 0°38'19"W
Eastings/Northings: 494000, 210277
OS Grid: SP940102
Mapcode Local: GBR F4W.1BQ
Mapcode Global: VHFRW.WF5S

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Wigginton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Wigginton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Wigginton.-- par. and vil., Herts, in W. of co.- par., 1674 ac., pop. 709; vil., 1½ mile SW. of Tring; P.O.

Wigginton in the Domesday Book

A village in Tring hundred, in the county of Hertfordshire.

- Overlords in 1066: Engelric the priest; Oswulf son of Frani; Queen Edith
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Godwin; Leofric, Oswulf's man; Brictric of Waddesdon
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Count of Mortain
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Humphrey of Wigginton (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 7 ⁵⁄₈ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £6 in 1066; £2 in 1070; £4 in 1086
- Households: 5 villagers; 6 cottagers; 1 slave
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 2 men's ploughs (5 plough lands)
- Meadow: 1 plough
- Woodland: 100 pigs
- Mills: 1, value 5 shillings

British Place Names

Wigginton, Hertfordshire

Wigginton is a village in Hertfordshire

Wigginton in historic gazetteers

Wigginton in the Domesday Book