Wragby
village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Wragby ( RAG-bee) is a historic market town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated at the junction of the A157 and A158 roads, and approximately 10 miles (16 km) north-west from Horncastle and about 11 miles (18 km) north-east of Lincoln.
History
The name Wragby derives from the Old Norse wraggibȳ meaning 'Wraggi's village'.
Wragby is named in the Domesday Book as "Waragebi", when it consisted of 23 households, a mill and a church.
The 'Rout Yard', a scheduled monument in the form of two moated islands and associated ditched enclosures, is the remains of a medieval manorial complex. In 1086 there were two manors at Wragby, one in the possession of Erenis of Buron, the other, Waldin the Artificer. The surviving remains possibly represent the Buron manor which held responsibility for a church. The church was dismantled in 1836 when a new church was established closer to the modern village centre. The 18th century brick-built chancel was kept as a cemetery chapel until the 1980s when it too was demolished.
The ruins of the older church can be seen from the bottom of the cemetery, and are 440 yards (400 m) from the grade II listed All Saints Church which was built in 1839 by W. A. Nicholson.
“Wragby” enters the record as village and civil parish in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wragby, village and civil can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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