Wigginton, Staffordshire

Description
Wigginton, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Tamworth parish, Staffordshire. The village lies 1 1/2 mile N of Tamworth. It has a post office under Tamworth; money order and telegraph office, Tamworth. The township contains also the hamlets of Hopwas, Comberford, Alder Mills and Coton, and Tamworth workhouse. Acreage, 3667; population, 1079. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Wigginton Park and Comberford Hall are the chief residences. There are paper-mills. The ecclesiastical parish is less extensive than the township, and was constituted in 1855. Population, 596. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £110 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Tamworth. The church was rebuilt in 1777, and enlarged in 1830, and again in 1862.