Wrawby
| Wrawby | |
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 St Mary the Virgin, Wrawby |
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| Wrawby shown within Lincolnshire | |
| Population | 1,469 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | TA019086 |
| • London | 145 mi (233 km) S |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Brigg |
| Postcode district | DN20 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
Wrawby is a village in North Lincolnshire, England. It lies 2 miles (3 km) east of Brigg and close to Humberside Airport, on the A18. The 2001 Census recorded a village population of 1,293, which increased to 1,469 at the 2011 census. Wrawby is noted for its postmill.
The village is shown as "Waregebi" in the Domesday Book, with the name thought to derive from Old Danish. It means "Wraghi's farmstead", which may derive from the Norse warg, which means wolf. Wraghi is also connected to an old Swedish dialect word "vrage" meaning "mooring post". Domesday Book records that the village comprised a church with a priest and farmland, meadow land and woodland at the time of the Norman Conquest.
The oldest surviving building in the village is the church of St Mary, which is probably Anglo-Saxon in origin. The current structure has a 13th-century tower and pillars. The font is 14th-century with a carved Jacobean cover. The advowson of the church was donated to Clare Hall, Cambridge by Elizabeth de Burgo in 1348. There is an altar tomb of the Tyrwhitt family, lords of the manor until the mid-17th century. (The role was then assumed by the Elwes family.) A tapestry of "Christ blessing little children" hangs in the church. Its manufacturer, Thomas Tapling of London, who was born in the village, donated it. He also endowed the Parish Reading Room (now demolished), hoping to provide the villagers the opportunity of an education.
The Tyrwhitts held the lordship from late medieval times, and in 1542 Robert Tyrwhitt is believed to have entertained Henry VIII lavishly at the manor house in nearby Kettleby. At the north-eastern boundary of Wrawby parish with Melton Ross is the site of an old gallows, reputedly placed there on the order of King James I as a warning to prevent bloodshed between the feuding Ross and Tyrwhitt families.
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