Wigton

Wigton is a railway stop in Wigton, Cumberland, England. Wigton is situated nearby to the public building Social Services, as well as near the theater building The John Peel Theatre.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Wigton railway station and The Nelson Thomlinson School.

Wigton railway station

Railway station

Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wigton railway station is a railway station serving the market town of Wigton in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.

The Nelson Thomlinson School

School

The Nelson Thomlinson School is an 11–18 comprehensive coeducational secondary school with a sixth form in the market town of Wigton, Cumbria, England. The Nelson Thomlinson School is situated 3,200 feet southeast of Wigton.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wigton and Aikhead.

Wigton

Town

Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wigton is a market town in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It lies just outside the Lake District. Wigton is at the centre of the Solway Plain, between the Caldbeck Fells and the Solway coast.

Aikhead

Locality

Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Aikhead is a hamlet in Cumbria, England, within the Lake District. It is about one and a half miles northwest of Wigton, and is in the civil parish of Woodside. The hamlet was the residence of John Rooke, an English geologist.

Oulton

Village

Photo: Bob Jenkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Oulton is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Woodside, near the small town of Wigton, in the Cumberland district of the county of Cumbria, England.

Wigton

Type: Railway stop
Categories: transport stop and transportation
Location: Wigton, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.82903° or 54° 49′ 45″ north

Longitude

-3.16462° or 3° 9′ 53″ west

Open location code

9C6RRRHP+J5

OpenStreetMap ID

node 8575210287

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=stop_position

OpenStreetMap feature

railway=stop

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