Wragby

Wragby
All Saints' church, Wragby
Wragby  Wragby shown within Lincolnshire
Population	1,361 (2001)
OS grid reference	TF132780
District	East Lindsey
Shire county	Lincolnshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Market Rasen
Postcode district	LN8 5
Police	Lincolnshire
Fire	Lincolnshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Louth and Horncastle
List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire

Wragby is a small town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) north-west from Horncastle and about 11 miles (18 km) north east of the city of Lincoln.

History

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 a quarter of a mile from the grade II listed church of All Saints which was built in 1839 by W. A. Nicholson.

Wragby Market Place

Wragby was a market town and staging centre through a charter dating back to Charles II.^{[citation needed]} The market was held on a Thursday, and there was a fair held on 1st May, and 28/29th September.

Wragby railway station and a grammar school founded in 1635, and rebuilt in 1775 are both now in residential use. There was also a grade II listed windmill, built in 1831. It was powered by six sails until 1903 when it ceased working.

Over time Wragby has evolved to be a stopping point en-route to the seaside town of Skegness, with amenities including three public houses, a fish shop, café, and a supermarket. The population of Wragby has expanded though the building of two new housing estates; a third estate began development in late 2009, with completion expected by early 2012. Kier Group initially began the new construction projects after buying-out local homebuilder Hugh Bourn. However, Kier then themselves sold the land and properties to Linden Homes (themselves a subsidiary of Galliford Try), who have continued construction of sites in the town, such as Carpenters Lodge.^{[citation needed]}

Modern facilities

The primary school educates just under 200 pupils from reception to Year 6; there is a pre-school unit next to the school.^{[citation needed]}

A regular bus service linking Wragby to Horncastle, Spilsby and Skegness (eastward), and to Lincoln (westward), is operated by Stagecoach. There used to be a railway station on the Louth to Bardney line. Through under-use the line closed to passenger transport in 1951, and to goods in 1960.^{[citation needed]}

There is a range of age groups participating in football: a men's team currently plays in Division 2 of the Sills and Betteridge Lincoln Sunday League; Under-17, Under-15 and Under-13 teams play in the Mid-Lincs youth league; the Under-15 team plays in the 15C League; and the Under-13 team plays in the 13D League.^{[citation needed]}

Wragby has a Youth Club and Young Farmers Club.^{[citation needed]}

References

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