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pump, Wigton
Wigton Pump
Street:-   Water Street
locality:-   Wigton
civil parish:-   Wigton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   pump
coordinates:-   NY25604839
1Km square:-   NY2548
10Km square:-   NY24
SummaryText:-   relocated to Water Street car park.
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Wigton Pump
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"WIGTON PUMP / / / WIGTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72045 / NY2505348413"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Former market-place pump. Victorian, inscribed on cast-iron plate, Ye Olde Wigton Pump Re-erected 1924. Cast-iron. Fluted tapering column and shaped cap with projecting angled nozzle; pump handle to rear and circular patterned cast-iron bracket to support buckets. Moved from the market place in 1872 and stored until its re-erection. Has G.V. with the nearby lamp-post, from the same location."

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