Wighton
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Wighton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is situated some Script error: No such module "convert". south of the town of Wells-next-the-Sea, Script error: No such module "convert". north of the town of Fakenham, and Script error: No such module "convert". north-west of the city of Norwich. The medieval pilgrimage centre of Walsingham lies Script error: No such module "convert". to the south.[1]
The villages name means 'Farm/settlement with a dwelling'.[2]
The civil parish has an area of Script error: No such module "convert". and in the 2001 census had a population of 203 in 92 households, the population increasing to 222 at the 2011 Census.[3] For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk.[4]
Wighton is on the River Stiffkey and used to have a watermill, but this was demolished in May 1866.[5] The Wells and Walsingham Light Railway runs close to the village, to the west, and there is a halt called Wighton Halt. A regular bus service is provided as the village is on the Coastliner bus route (service number 36) with destinations including Fakenham, Wells, Hunstanton and King's Lynn.[6]
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".Template:Fact
References
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- ↑ Ordnance Survey (2002). OS Explorer Map 251 - Norfolk Coast Central. Template:ISBN.
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- ↑ Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes Template:Webarchive. Retrieved 2 December 2005.
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- ↑ LynxBus Coastliner 36
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External links
- Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates". for Wighton.
- Information from Genuki Norfolk on Wighton.
- NorfolkCoast.co.uk on Wighton.