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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Essex | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Wrabness All Saints | |
Hundred | Tendring | |
Poor Law union | Tendring |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wrabness from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wrabness (All Saints))
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
Online maps of Wrabness are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Essex online: