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Worlaby is a village and
civil parish in
North Lincolnshire, England, south-west from
Barton-Upon-Humber and north-east from
Brigg. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 547. It lies on the
B1204, and to the east of the
River Ancholme. It is one of the five ''Low Villages'' –
South Ferriby,
Horkstow,
Saxby All Saints,
Bonby
Bonby is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England, and approximately south from Barton-upon-Humber. According to the 2001 Census it had a population of 481, increasing to 532 at the 2011 census.
The village was recorded in th ...
, and Worlaby – between Brigg and the
River Humber, named so because of their position below the northern edge of the
Lincolnshire Wolds. Worlaby was part of the
Glanford district, a part of the former county of
Humberside between 1974 and 1996. Before that it was in the North Lindsey division of
Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
History
According to ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', Worlaby derives from a combination of an
Old English
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person name and
Old Scandinavian 'by', meaning "a farmstead or a village of a man called Wulfric".
In the ''
Domesday Book'' the village is listed as "Uluricebi" or "Wirichebi". Worlaby was in the Yarborough
Hundred of the
North Riding of Lindsey. It contained 24.4 households, one
villager, 36
freemen, seven
ploughlands, and of meadow. The settlement was under the manor of
Barnetby le Wold with
Earl Harold as its
lord in 1066, transferred in 1086 after the
Norman Conquest to William son of Nigel, with
Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester as
Tenant-in-chief to the king
William I.
In 1872 ''
White's Directory'' reported that Worlaby had a population of 557 within a parish of that comprised mostly "rich areas or cars extending westward to the navigable river Ancholme, and partly on the Wold hill, on the east side of the village". The parish land was a holding of the
Duchy of Lancaster,
roviding income for the Privy Purse of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom">sovereign
''Sovereign'' is a title which can be applied to the highest leader in various categories. The word is borrowed from Old French , which is ultimately derived from the Latin , meaning 'above'.
The roles of a sovereign vary from monarch, ruler or ...
]. Worlaby was the seat of the Baron Belasyse, Belasyse family, particularly John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse, John Belasyse (1614 – 1689), the second son to Thomas, the first Thomas Belasyse, 1st Viscount Fauconberg, Viscount Fauconberg. John Belasyse was created first Baron Belasyse of Worlaby (or Worletby) in 1644, and was first
Lord High Treasurer, lord of the treasury to
James II James II may refer to:
* James II of Avesnes (died c. 1205), knight of the Fourth Crusade
* James II of Majorca (died 1311), Lord of Montpellier
* James II of Aragon (1267–1327), King of Sicily
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. Seen as being a conspirator in the fictitious
Popish Plot
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, he was "attained, and confined for several years in the Tower". John Belasyse's hospital, founded in 1663 to house poor widows, in 1872 endowed each inmate with £3.10s. yearly, a blue gown, and half a
chaldron (a volume measure), of coal, the gift of an estate at
Holme in
Nottinghamshire, then belonging to the
trustees of the
Duke of Newcastle (
Newcastle upon Tyne). A further allowance to the alms-people was £4.10s. yearly from £100 left for the purpose through an 1812 benefaction.
[White, William (1872), ''Whites Directory of Lincolnshire'', p.549]
The chancel of St Clement's Church was rebuilt in 1837, the rest of the church "an ancient structure". The church in 1872 contained seating for 150. Within was noted a tablet to Captain A. F. C. Webb, who fell at the 1854
Battle of Inkerman. The
incumbency was a
vicarage at a value of £378 yearly, and included of
glebe land—an area of land used to support a parish priest—and a
residence which was built in 1860 at a cost of £900. There existed a
Wesleyan and a
Primitive Methodist
The Primitive Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination with the holiness movement. It began in England in the early 19th century, with the influence of American evangelist Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834).
In the United States, the Primiti ...
chapel; that for the Wesleyans was built in 1858 for £300. A new schoolroom was erected in 1871 for about £800. The Worlaby post office dispatched and received mail through Brigg.
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Professions and trades listed for 1872 included the parish incumbent, the parish curate, the parish clerk & sexton, a schoolmaster who was also the sub-postmaster, a veterinary surgeon, a wheelwright, a blacksmith, a skin dealer, a cattle dealer, two tailors, one of whom was also a grocer, a further grocer, a shopkeeper, two shoemakers, a bricklayer, a brickmaker, a coal dealer & carter, a corn miller, a licensed hawker, a farrier & castrator, a market gardener, ten farmers, and two carriers—horse-drawn wagon operators carrying goods and sometimes people between places of trade—operating between the village and Barton-upon-Humber, Brigg, Caistor and ]Hull
Hull may refer to:
Structures
* Chassis, of an armored fighting vehicle
* Fuselage, of an aircraft
* Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds
* Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship
* Submarine hull
Mathematics
* Affine hull, in affi ...
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Landmarks
The original 13th- to 14th-century Grade II
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listed parish church dedicated to St Clement was re-built between 1873 and 1877, although the early Norman piers of the nave, windows and Late Saxon
The Saxons ( la, Saxones, german: Sachsen, ang, Seaxan, osx, Sahson, nds, Sassen, nl, Saksen) were a group of Germanic
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peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
tower arch were re-used.[Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 344; Methuen & Co. Ltd]
The churchyard contains the war grave of a Second World War Home Guard volunteer.[CWGC Casualty details]
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Other listed buildings include Worlaby Hospital, originally almshouses
An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) was charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during the medieval era. They were often targeted at the poor of a locality, at those from certain ...
founded by John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse of Worlaby, and built in 1663 for four poor women.[
]
Worlaby Carrs
To the west of the village to the River Ancholme is Worlaby Carrs, an area of arable land converted by Defra to wet grassland as sanctuary for wintering fowl. In early 2011 a proposal to site a wind farm on the Carrs met with local opposition."Villagers sign petition to stop wind turbine being built at wildlife haven"
This is Scunthorpe 11 February 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2011
References
Further reading
*Machin, Nannette (1989) ''Worlaby: A Miscellany of a North Lincolnshire Village, Between 1870-1970''
*Machin, Nanette. (1990) ''One hundred years of Worlaby school''
External links
*
Worlaby parish council web site
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Villages in the Borough of North Lincolnshire
Civil parishes in Lincolnshire