Wigston Parva
Wigston Parva is a hamlet and civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, England. The parish has a population of about 30. It is very near the county boundary with Warwickshire.[1][2] Nearby places include Smockington, and Sharnford. The population of the hamlet at the 2011 census was included in the civil parish of Aston Flamville.[3]
There is evidence of a Roman fort at Wigston Parva, and although the hamlet has an entry in the Domesday Book, the name of the hamlet is first recorded in 1002, sixty years before the Domesday survey.[4][5][6][7] The name Wigston is possibly Wicg's stone, with Wicg being a personal name.[8] The addition of Parva came later (c. 1843) to distinguish it from other places named Wigston.[7] It was also sometimes known as Little Wigston, and historically it was in the Guthlaxton Hundred.[9]
The settlement has an Anglican church, St Mary the Virgin, parts of which date back to the 11th century.[10][11] It is now a grade II listed building.[12] The hamlet was made into a conservation area in 1976.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (2003). Williamson, Elizabeth; Brandwood, Geoffrey (eds.). The buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland (2 ed.). London: Yale University Press. p. 2. ISBN 0-300-09618-6.
- ^ "Genuki: Wigston Parva, Leicestershire". genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
- ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Aston Flamville Parish (E04005341)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
- ^ "Wigston Parva Roman Fort". www.heritagegateway.org.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (2003). Williamson, Elizabeth; Brandwood, Geoffrey (eds.). The buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland (2 ed.). London: Yale University Press. p. 52. ISBN 0-300-09618-6.
- ^ "Wigston [Parva] | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
- ^ a b "Wigston Parva". epns.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
- ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 518. OCLC 1228215388.
- ^ White, William (1863). History, gazetteer and directory of Leicestershire, and the ... County of Rutland. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. p. 786. OCLC 319907932.
- ^ "Wigston Parva: St Mary the Virgin". www.achurchnearyou.com. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
- ^ "Wigston Parva St Mary the Virgin | National Churches Trust". www.nationalchurchestrust.org. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
- ^ Historic England. "Church of St Mary (Grade II) (1295237)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
- ^ "Wigston Parva conservation area" (PDF). blaby.gov.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
External links
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Media related to Wigston Parva at Wikimedia Commons
52°30′N 1°19′W / 52.500°N 1.317°W
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