48 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*

Church of St MaryGrade II* listedKings Arms Walter WillsonsGrade II listedMoore Memorial FountainGrade II listedLion and Lamb HotelGrade II listedWigton, Woodside and Oulton War MemorialGrade II listed+2See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.

Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 12 entries were listed in 1967. 32 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

John Woodcock Graves

Stephen Blair

Clark Irving

William Miller

Richard Bell

Robert Atkinson

Thomas Holliday

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WM

William Miller1864–1945 · British medievalist and journalist

JG

John Woodcock Graves1795–1886 · British composer

Robert Atkinson1883–1952 · English architect (1883-1952)

RB

Richard Bell1874–1953 · English cricketer (1874-1953)

SB

Stephen Blair1804–1870 · Politician

CI

Clark Irving1808–1865 · Australian politician

Thomas Holliday1898–1969 · English rugby union and rugby league footballer (1898–1969)

Everyone born in Wigton → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Wigton has 48 listed buildings, including Church of St Mary. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1977. Of the whole list, 56% are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 7 people born here before 1900, the best known include William Miller (1864), John Woodcock Graves (1795) and Robert Atkinson (1883). More than half went on the list in a single year, 1984: 32 of 48. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 17% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.