Wrawby

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Wrawby is a village in North Lincolnshire two miles east of Brigg and close to Humberside Airport on the A18. It is most notable for Wrawby Postmill. The Mill is the last remaining postmill in the north of England, and was built circa 1760 on the site of a former mill which is home to the world famous wbe.

The village was known as Waregebi in the Domesday Book, with the name thought to derive from Old Danish. It means Wraghi's farmstead.

Wrawby is served by St Mary's Church of England church, and an affiliated primary school. There is also a Methodist church, post office and garage. A village hall was opened in the late 1990s.

Michael Wigglesworth, was a clergyman in New England in the late 1600s and poet wrote The Day of Doom in 1661. He was born in the village, and moved to New England when he was seven.