Wragby

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…