Wigtoft

{{Short description|Village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England}}

{{Use British English|date=December 2013}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}

{{Infobox UK place

| static_image_name= SS Peter and Paul, Wigtoft - geograph.org.uk - 120940.jpg

| static_image_alt=

| static_image_caption= Church of St Peter and St Paul, Wigtoft

| country = England

| official_name= Wigtoft

| map_alt=

| coordinates = {{coord|52.907846|-0.124179|display=inline,title}}

| population= 491

| population_ref= (2011)

| shire_district= Boston

| shire_county = Lincolnshire

| region= East Midlands

| constituency_westminster= Boston and Skegness (UK Parliament constituency)

| post_town= Boston

| postcode_district = PE20

| postcode_area= PE

| dial_code=

| os_grid_reference= TF262361

| london_distance_mi= 100

| london_direction= S

}}

Wigtoft is a village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A17 road, {{convert|6|mi|km|0}} geographically south-west from Boston, Lincolnshire, and {{convert|1|mi|km|1}} west from Sutterton. Included in Wigtoft civil parish are the hamlets of Asperton and Burtoft.{{cite web|title=Burtoft in Wigtoft CP|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp?text_id=1826800&word=NULL|work=A Vision of Britain through Time|publisher=University of Portsmouth|accessdate=31 August 2011}}

The name 'Wigtoft' derives from the Old Norse and Old English, vik-toft, meaning 'curtilage by a creek'.{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Lincolnshire/Wigtoft|title = Key to English Place-names}}

Wigtoft is one of eighteen parishes which, together with Boston, form the Borough of Boston. The local government has been arranged in this way since the reorganisation of 1 April 1974, which resulted from the Local Government Act 1972. This parish forms part of the Five Villages electoral ward.

Previously, the parish had formed part of Boston Rural District, in the Parts of Holland. Holland was one of the three divisions (formally known as parts) of the traditional county of Lincolnshire. Since the Local Government Act of 1888, Holland had been in most respects, a county in itself.

The parish church is a Grade I listed building dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul and dating from the 12th to 15th centuries and restored in 1891.{{NHLE|desc=St Peter and St Paul church|num=1237405|accessdate=31 August 2011}}

class="wikitable" ! Year !! Population{{cite web|title = Wigtoft parish population:Vision of Britain|url =http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TOT_POP&u_id=10463774&c_id=10001043&add=N}}
1801	536
1811	555
1821	637
1831	697
1841	713
1851	741
1881	672
1891	653
1901	693
1911	723
1921	712
1931	702
1941	N/A (World War II)
1951	518
1961	505
2001	479
2011	491

{{Geographic location

|title = Destinations from Wigtoft

|Northwest = Hoffleet Stow, Bicker, Swineshead

|North = Kirton Holme, Hubberts Bridge, Brothertoft

|Northeast = Kirton, Wyberton, Boston

|West = Donington, Horbling, Threekingham

|Centre = Wigtoft

|East = Sutterton, Algarkirk

|Southwest = Quadring, Gosberton, Bourne

|South = Surfleet, Pinchbeck, Spalding

|Southeast = Fosdyke, Holbeach, Gedney

}}