Wigglesworth is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

and

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in the

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district of

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. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was 379. It is on the road between

Long Preston Long Preston is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England, in the Yorkshire Dales. It lies along the A65 road, and is from Skipton and from Settle. The population of Long Preston in 2001 was 680, increas ...

to the east, Clitheroe to the south and the small village of Rathmell lies just to the north. It is about south of

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. Despite the small size of the village, it has a public house called the Plough Inn. Wigglesworth consists of a few small scattered houses and farmsteads. The heart of the village lies on the crossroads between Clitheroe, Rathmell and Long Preston. A former Wesleyan chapel stands on the

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in the western part of the settlement.

References

External links

Village website
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