History of Little Wigborough

St. Nicholas' Church, Little Wigborough
©Robert Edwards
Photograph by kind permission of Robert Edwards,
contributor to the Geograph Project

Feature articles

How inhabitants of the sleepy village of Little Wigborough were suddenly thrust into the front line of the First World War when a Zeppelin crashed in their fields. >>more

White's Directory of Essex 1848

WIGBOROUGH (LITTLE,) is a small village, on it declivity, overlooking the salt marshes and the estuary of the Blackwater >>more.

More local history sources

Books featuring Little Wigborough from Abebooks. Just click the logo. The search terms are already formatted for Little Wigborough.

Search for Little Wigborough census returns at ancestry.co.uk.

1841 England Census | 1851 England Census | 1861 England Census
1871 England Census | 1881 England Census | 1891 England Census
1901 England Census

The Essex Record Office: an excellent starting point for research. The ERO has an online catalogue by the name of SEAX and a database of Parish Records held in the ERO. Access to both via their home page.

1881 Ordnance Survey Map from the British History Online web site (Essex: 046, Ordnance Survey 1:10,560: Epoch 1.0).

Ordnance Survey - type the place name in the gazetteer search box to view detailed map of Little Wigborough.

Images of England web site which has a photographic record of England's listed buildings - from the grandest house to the humblest cottage. Enter the town or village in the search box. Photographs are accompanied by a detailed architectural description of the property.