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"WIGLAND, a township in the parish of MALPAS, higher division of the hundred of BROXTON, county palatine of CHESTER, 1¾ mile (S. S. E.) from Malpas, containing 204 inhabitants. At Dirtwich, in this township, are brine springs, from which salt is made. In 1643, the works were destroyed by a detachment of the parliamentary army, but they were soon restored." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Wigland was a township in Malpas ancient parish, Broxton hundred (SJ 4944), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- It includes the hamlet of Higher Wych (part).
- The population was 160 in 1801, 203 in 1851, 142 in 1901, 109 in 1951, and 104 in 2001.
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