Wiggonby is a hamlet in parish of Aikton and the district of Cumberland, in the English county of Cumbria.
[3] Circa 1870, it had a population of 298 as recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.
[4] The village was the site of RAF Great Orton, also known as Wiggonby airfield during World War II.
[5] It was opened in June 1943 as a satellite of RAF Silloth, it closed in August 1952.
The site of the airfield was also used to bury nearly half a million animal carcasses in the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak.