English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Wragby

Early-attested site in the Parish of Wragby

Historical Forms

  • Wraggebi, Wraggeby 1160–70 YCh 13 Nost65d,103d,104 1308,1315 WCR
  • Wragheby 1332 Ipm
  • Wragby(e) 1343 Ass7 1400 Pat 1533 FF 1652 PRRth
  • Wrauby 1360 Ass1
  • Wraweby 1375 FF

Etymology

'Wraghi's farmstead', from the ODan  pers.n. Wraghi and . The pers.n. is distinctively East Scand (cf. Introd.).