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Wrabness, Essex

Historical Description

Wrabness, a village and a parish in Essex, on the Harwich and Manningtree branch of the G.E.R., on which there is a station, and 6½ miles W of Harwich. Post town, Manningtree; money order and telegraph office, Mistley. Acreage, 1112; population, 264. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The name is derived from its situation on a promontory or " ness" in the frith of the Stour. The manor belongs to the Garland family. Wrabness Hall is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £285 with residence. The church was renovated and repaired in 1893.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyEssex 
Ecclesiastical parishWrabness All Saints 
HundredTendring 
Poor Law unionTendring 

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Wrabness from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Essex is available to browse.

The Essex pages from the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 is online.


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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DistrictTendring
CountyEssex
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtCO11
Post TownManningtree

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