Wighton
| Wighton | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
| File:All Saints Wighton - geograph.org.uk - 4073108.jpg All Saints, Wighton | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF940399 |
| Location: | 52°55’17"N, 0°53’4"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 222 (2011) |
| Post town: | Wells-Next-The-Sea |
| Postcode: | NR23 |
| Dialling code: | 01328 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | North Norfolk |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North Norfolk |
Wighton is a village in Norfolk, in the north of the county four miles south of Wells-next-the-Sea and seven and a half miles north of Fakenham. Walsingham, a mediæval pilgrimage centre, is two miles to the south.
The villages name means 'Farm/settlement with a dwelling'.[1]
The 2011 Census recorded a population of 222.
Wighton is on the River Stiffkey and used to have a watermill, but this was demolished in May 1866.[2] The Wells and Walsingham Light Railway runs close to the village, to the west, and there is a halt called Wighton Halt.
The village was used as the location shooting for "Little Bazeley by the Sea" in the 1965 "The Avengers" episode entitled The Town of No Return with intrepid agents Patrick Macnee (John Steed) and Diana Rigg (Emma Peel.) The local pub featured in the episode was called "The Inebriated Gremlin".
Outside links
| ("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Wighton) |
- Information on Wighton from GENUKI
- NorfolkCoast.co.uk on Wighton
References
- ↑ Place-Names
- ↑ Jonathan Neville (2006). "Wighton Mill". Norfolk Mills. http://www.norfolkmills.co.uk/Watermills/wighton.html.