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__NOTOC__ Worlaby is a village and
civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
in
North Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area in Lincolnshire, England, with a population of 167,446 in the 2011 census. The borough includes the towns of Scunthorpe, Brigg, Haxey, Crowle, Epworth, Bottesford, Kirton in Lindsey and Barton ...
, England, south-west from
Barton-Upon-Humber Barton-upon-Humber () or Barton is a town and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 11,066. It is situated on the south bank of the Humber Estuary at the southern end of the Humber Bridge. It is s ...
and north-east from
Brigg Brigg ( /'brɪg/) is a market town in North Lincolnshire, England, with a population of 5,076 in the 2001 UK census, the population increased to 5,626 at the 2011 census. The town lies at the junction of the River Ancholme and east–west tra ...
. 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 The River Ancholme is a river in Lincolnshire, England, and a tributary of the Humber. It rises at Ancholme Head, a spring just north of the village of Ingham and immediately west of the Roman Road, Ermine Street. It flows east and then north ...
. It is one of the five ''Low Villages'' –
South Ferriby South Ferriby is a village in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the south bank of the Humber Estuary and west from the Humber Bridge. North Ferriby is directly opposite on the Estuary's north bank. Village population was 651 in ...
,
Horkstow Horkstow is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England, south-west from Barton-upon-Humber, south from South Ferriby and north from Brigg. It lies on the B1204, and east from the navigable River Ancholme.
,
Saxby All Saints Saxby All Saints is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 385. It is north of Brigg and south-west of Barton upon Humber. Saxby All Saints is a conservation area ...
, Bonby, and Worlaby – between Brigg and the
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, named so because of their position below the northern edge of the
Lincolnshire Wolds The Lincolnshire Wolds are a range of low hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England which run roughly parallel with the North Sea coast, from the Humber Estuary in the north-west to the edge of the Lincolnshire Fens in the south-east. They ar ...
. Worlaby was part of the
Glanford Glanford was, from 1974 to 1996, a local government district with borough status in the non-metropolitan county of Humberside, England. Creation The district was created on 1 April 1974 as part of a general reform of local government in England ...
district, a part of the former county of
Humberside Humberside () was a non-metropolitan and ceremonial county in Northern England from 1 April 1974 until 1 April 1996. It was composed of land from either side of the Humber Estuary, created from portions of the East Riding of Yorkshire, West ...
between 1974 and 1996. Before that it was in the North Lindsey division of
Lindsey Lindsey may refer to : Places Canada * Lindsey Lake, Nova Scotia England * Parts of Lindsey, one of the historic Parts of Lincolnshire and an administrative county from 1889 to 1974 ** East Lindsey, an administrative district in Lincolnshire, ...
, Lincolnshire.


History

According to ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', Worlaby derives from a combination of an
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person name and Old Scandinavian 'by', meaning "a farmstead or a village of a man called Wulfric". In the ''
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'' the village is listed as "Uluricebi" or "Wirichebi". Worlaby was in the Yarborough
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of the
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. It contained 24.4 households, one villager, 36 freemen, seven ploughlands, and of meadow. The settlement was under the manor of
Barnetby le Wold Barnetby le Wold is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England, located between Brigg and Immingham. The village is also near Barton-upon-Humber. The population of the parish in the 2001 census was 1,593. This incr ...
with Earl Harold as its
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in 1066, transferred in 1086 after the
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to William son of Nigel, with
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as
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to the king
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. 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
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]. 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. Seen as being a conspirator in the fictitious
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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
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(a volume measure), of coal, the gift of an estate at Holme in
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, then belonging to the
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s of the
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). 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
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. The
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was a
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at a value of £378 yearly, and included of
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land—an area of land used to support a parish priest—and a
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which was built in 1860 at a cost of £900. There existed a
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and a
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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. 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
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, 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
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& castrator, a
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er, 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 Barton-upon-Humber () or Barton is a town and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 11,066. It is situated on the south bank of the Humber Estuary at the southern end of the Humber Bridge. It is s ...
, Brigg,
Caistor Caistor is a town and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. As its name implies, it was originally a Roman castrum or fortress. It lies at the north-west edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, on the Viking Way, an ...
and Hull.


Landmarks

The original 13th- to 14th-century
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listed parish church dedicated to St Clement was re-built between 1873 and 1877, although the early
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s of the
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, windows and Late
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tower arch were re-used.Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 344; Methuen & Co. Ltd The churchyard contains the
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of a Second World War
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Other listed buildings include Worlaby Hospital, originally
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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
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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
{{Authority control Villages in the Borough of North Lincolnshire Civil parishes in Lincolnshire