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Wragby in Lincoln County England History and GeographyWRAGBY, a market town and parish in the western division of the wapentake of WRAGGOE, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 10½ miles (E.N.E.) from Lincoln, and 139½ (N. by W.) from London, containing 633 inhabitants. This place, noticed by Leland as a village giving name to a small beck, or stream, which flowed by it, in its course from Panton to Bardney abbey, is of some antiquity, but is not distinguished by any event of historical importance. From an inconsiderable village it was raised to a market town by George, Duke of Buckingham, who, in 1671, obtained for it the grant of a market and three annual fairs, two of which are still held. The town is pleasantly situated on the high road from Lincoln to Horncastle, at the point where it meets the road to Louth, and consists of neatly-built houses. The environs comprise an extensive tract of fertile land, in the cultivation of which the inhabitants are principally employed. There is very little trade, except what arises from its situation on a public road, and is requisite for the supply of the inhabitants. The market is on Thursday; and fairs are annually held on Holy Thursday and the 29th of September, for sheep and cattle. The town is under the jurisdiction of the county magistrates, and within that of a court of requests for the wapentake of Wraggoe, established by an act passed in the 19th of George III., for the recovery of debts under 40s. The living is a vicarage, united, in 1735, to the rectory of East Torrington, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8. 4. 2., and in the patronage of Edmund Turnor, Esq. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is an ancient structure, principally in the later style of English architecture, and contains several sepulchral memorials. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. William Hansard, in 1632, bequeathed a rent-charge of £30 for teaching poor children of the parish. Sir Edmund Turnor, Knt., founded an almshouse, with a chapel, for six clergymen's widows, and for six aged widowers, or widows, of Wragby, which, in 1707, he endowed with a rent-charge of £100, for keeping the buildings in repair, for the support of the inmates, and for the payment of a stipend to the vicar for officiating in the chapel. There are also some charitable bequests for distribution among the poor. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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