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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wighton like this:
WIGHTON, a parish, with a village, in Walsingham district, Norfolk; 2 miles N by E of Walsingham r. station. Post town, New Walsingham, under Fakenham-Acres, 2,932. Real property, £3,262. Pop., 612. Houses, 131. The manor belongs to the Earl of Leicester. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, not reported. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of N. The church is good. Charities, £85.
Wighton is now part of NORTH NORFOLK District. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH NORFOLK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wighton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wighton, in North Norfolk and Norfolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2256
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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