Country: | England |
Static Image Name: | Wiggonby (geograph 4347893).jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Wiggonby |
Coordinates: | 54.867°N -3.097°W |
Official Name: | Wiggonby |
Civil Parish: | Aikton |
Shire District: | Allerdale |
Shire County: | Cumbria |
Region: | North West England |
Constituency Westminster: | Workington |
Post Town: | WIGTON |
Postcode District: | CA7 |
Postcode Area: | CA |
Dial Code: | 016973 |
Os Grid Reference: | NY296530 |
Pushpin Map: | United Kingdom Allerdale |
Wiggonby is a hamlet in parish of Aikton and the district of Allerdale, in the English county of Cumbria. Historically in Cumberland, it seven miles away from the city of Carlisle and 2 miles from the village of Great Orton. The village has an area of 2,404 acres.[1] It has a primary school called Wiggonby CE School, which currently has 48 pupils.[2]
The village school was founded in 1792 and rebuilt in 1860.[3] Circa 1870, it had a population of 298 as recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.[4] The village was the site of RAF Great Orton, also known as Wiggonby airfield during World War II.[5] It was opened in June 1943 as a satellite of RAF Silloth, it closed in August 1952. The site of the airfield was also used to bury nearly half a million animal carcasses in the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak.[6]