Wrabness

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Wrabness
Essex
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All Saints, Wrabness
Location
Grid reference: TM222417
Location: 51°56’23"N, 1°10’2"E
Data
Population: 401  (2011[1])
Post town: Manningtree
Postcode: CO11
Dialling code: 01255
Local Government
Council: Tendring
Parliamentary
constituency:
North Essex

Wrabness is a small village and parish near Manningtree, Essex. The village is located six miles west of Harwich. Wrabness railway station is served by trains on the Mayflower Line. Wrabness had a population of approximately 400.

All Saints' Church

Wooden bell cage, Wrabness church yard

The oldest building in the village is All Saints' Church, which dates from around 1100. The church's bell tower collapsed in the seventeenth century, and the bell moved temporarily to a wooden bell cage in the church yard. The bell cage remains to this day.

Wrabness Nature Reserve

Wrabness Local Nature Reserve was designated in 1993.[2][3] It covers 52 acres on the banks of the River Stour estuary. The site was once a former mine depot established in 1921 by the Ministry of Defence. It was closed in 1963. Following closure, a number of planning applications were put forward (including an application for a prison in 1968 and 1989). The site was saved from closure when it was bought by Wrabness Nature Reserve Charitable Trust in 1992. The site has now been taken over by the Essex Wildlife Trust.

The reserve is an important wildlife site - owls, yellowhammers, whitethroats, turtle dove, song thrush, nightingales and bullfinches can be seen. There are also many wild plants such as corn mint, hairy buttercup, sea aster and ox-eye daisy.

There is good access with a hard-core path around the reserve making it accessible for pushchairs or with disabilities.

Grayson Perry's "Julie’s House"

A House for Essex, designed by Grayson Perry in Wrabness.

In 2015 a conceptual holiday home was created by the artist Grayson Perry, working with Fashion Architecture Taste, and commissioned by the charity Living Architecture. It is known as "Julie’s House" or "A House for Essex", in homage to the "single mums in Dagenham, hairdressers in Colchester, and the landscape and history of Essex". The house is highly decorated incorporating rooftop ornaments, and overlooks the River Stour near the village.[4][5][6]

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