Wrabness
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Wrabness is a small village and civil parish near Manningtree, Essex, England. The village is located six miles (10 km) west of Harwich, in North Essex on the banks of the River Stour. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 369.
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- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Wrabness
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- bottom
- UK place.population
- 369
- UK place.population_ref
- (Parish, 2021)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Wrabness
- UK place.shire_district
- Tendring
- UK place.shire_county
- Essex
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Harwich and North Essex
- UK place.post_town
- Manningtree
- UK place.postcode_district
- CO11
- UK place.postcode_area
- CO
- UK place.dial_code
- 01255
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TM222417
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- Bell-cage for single bell, Wrabness church - geograph.org.uk - 646082.jpg
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- 240px
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- Wooden bell cage, Wrabness church yard
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- 401
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- A House for Essex - Grayson Perry.jpg
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Wrabness is a small village and civil parish near Manningtree, Essex, England. The village is located six miles (10 km) west of Harwich, in North Essex on the banks of the River Stour. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 369.
==History== Wrabness at the time of the Domesday Book, was owned by Bury St Edmunds Abbey, with a population of 20 households and was rented to a chief and two Lords of the Manor at an annual value of £6 to the abbey. Wrabness is an Anglo-Saxon name, coming from the cape of Saxon called or nicknamed Wrabba, however it has also been stated that the name comes from the location of the Ness on the River Stour. The village had been recorded as being spelt as Warbenase, Wrabnes, Wrabnashe and Wrabbenase. The parish was one of the divisions of Tendring Hundred, and from 1834, part of the Tendring Poor Union. The village had a population of 253 in 1821, but this had shrunk down to 248 by 1831.
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