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For some time he made a livelihood by keeping a library in Wigton and playing his fiddle. [2] In his twentieth year he married. After leaving Wigton for Carlisle, he moved to Manchester, where he remained more or less till his death. He visited Cumberland, and also went further afield selling his works, and about 1809 visited Oxford.
Wigton's principal employer is the Innovia Films Ltd (locally known as The Factory) in the centre of the town. In 1936 the British New Wrap Co Ltd was formed in Wigton, Cumberland, and production of cellulose film began at the site which had previously been a jam-making facility, and then set up to produce "artificial silk" or Rayon .
Wigton is a civil parish and town in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England. It contains 51 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England . Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
Wigtown County Buildings, also known as Wigtown County Buildings and Town Hall, [1] [2] is a municipal building in The Square, Wigtown, Scotland.The structure primarily served as the meeting place and town hall for Wigtown Burgh Council, but was also used for some meetings of Wigtownshire County Council.
Wigton was a rural district in Cumberland, England from 1894 to It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 based on Wigton rural sanitary district . Wigton was originally an urban district but became a civil parish in the Wigton RD in 1934.
Douglas was the son of Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas and Margaret Stewart, eldest daughter of Robert III.He was Earl of Douglas and Wigtown, Lord of Galloway, Lord of Bothwell, Selkirk and Ettrick Forest, Eskdale, Lauderdale and Annandale in Scotland, and de jure Duke of Touraine, Count of Longueville and Seigneur of Dun-le-roi in France.
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Earl of Wigtown (or Wigton or Wigtoun) is an extinct title created twice in the Peerage of Scotland. The first creation was in 1341 for Malcolm Fleming of Clan Fleming , and was surrendered in 1372, when the second Earl sold the Earldom and territory to Archibald the Grim , Lord of Galloway .