Wigginton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Bulford in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Bulford

The Meaning of the Name

The name Wigginton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Wigginton.

Listed Buildings Near Wigginton

Historic England records 2 listed buildings within about a mile of Wigginton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

48, the Village - 1.04 km
Cross Stump Immediately South of Church of St Mary - 1.07 km

Wigginton Today

Today Wigginton lies within the administrative area of City of York, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,426 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Wigginton on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

Dic - 1.0 km E
Diche - 1.0 km E
Haxby - 1.0 km E
Wide Open Farm - 2.2 km SW
Corburn - 2.2 km NW
Huntington - 2.8 km SE

Heritage Around Wigginton

Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.

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Wigginton in the Domesday Book (1086)