The village lies on a medieval trade route, the Portway, possibly used for transporting salt from the River Mease at Edingale to Tamworth.

[5] Grade II listed buildings in Wigginton village include two or three houses and the former Anglican chapel, now a church.

Dedicated to St Leonard, it was rebuilt in 1777, extended in 1830,[9] and altered again in 1861 to a design by Nicholas Joyce.

To the south-west of the village is the former site, now ploughed out, of a likely Bronze Age barrow formerly known as "Robin Hood's Butt".

To the north-west is a flat area formerly called the "Money Lands", where human bones and ancient coins, thought to be Roman, were recovered in a find made in the 18th century.