Description
Wiggonby, a village in Aikton parish, Cumberland, 5 miles NE of Wigton station on the Maryport and Carlisle railway. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Wigton. An ancient camp, 180 feet square, and planted with fir trees, is near Down Hall. There is an endowed school, founded in 1792 and rebuilt in 1860, with an endowment of about £180 per annum.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
