Wigsley is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

and civil parish in

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated ''Notts.'') is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. The county is bordered by South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. Th ...

, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 178 (including Spalford), Wigsley alone reported 118 residents in the 2021 census. It is located 10 miles west of

Lincoln Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the 16th president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S. * Lincoln (na ...

. To the south-west of the village are the remains of R.A.F. Wigsley airfield. Wigsley is one of the

Thankful Villages Thankful Villages (also known as Blessed Villages; ) are settlements in England and Wales from which all their members of the armed forces survived World War I. The term Thankful Village was popularised by the writer Arthur Mee in the 1930s; in '' ...

– those rare places that were spared fatalities in the Great War of 1914 to 1918.

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Villages in Nottinghamshire Newark and Sherwood {{authority control Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire