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In the East Riding of the county, seven miles from Bromley, and 192 from London, is a small but ancient town, near the river Foulness, which in Camden’s time was well stocked with husbandmen. Edward II granted it a charter for a fair, on the eve-day and morrow of St. Mary Magdalen; as did Henry VI for two others, the one upon the festival of Invention, the other on that of the Exaltation, of the Holy-Cross. It has a market on Wednesdays.

Source: The Universal British Directory of Trade, Commerce, and Manufacture 1791. Volume the Fifth.

Note: Wighton is how the town is spelt in the Directory.