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Wigginton and Hopwas is a civil parish in the district of Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. The parish contains 16 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". The parish contains the villages of Wigginton and Hopwas and the surrounding countryside. Most of the listed buildings are houses and farmhouses, and the other listed buildings include two churches, a former pumping station, a pump house, a war memorial and a milepost.
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- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011" . Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ↑ "Names and codes for Administrative Geography". Office for National Statistics. 31 December 2008. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
- ↑ "GENUKI: Hopwas Hays". 17 October 2003. Retrieved 16 September 2009.
- ↑ "Listed Buildings in Wigginton parish" (PDF). Retrieved 15 September 2009.
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