# Wroot

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Village in Lincolnshire, England

Human settlement in England

Wroot St Pancras Church, Wroot Wroot Location within Lincolnshire Population 455 (2011) OS grid reference SE708035 • London 145 mi (233 km) SSE Unitary authority North Lincolnshire Ceremonial county Lincolnshire Region Yorkshire and the Humber Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town Doncaster Postcode district DN9 Police Humberside Fire Humberside Ambulance East Midlands UK Parliament Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme List of places UK England Lincolnshire 53°31′25″N 0°55′56″W / 53.523648°N 0.932252°W / 53.523648; -0.932252

**Wroot** (pronounced [/ˈruːt/](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English) [*ROOT*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key)) is a [linear village](/source/Linear_village) and [civil parish](/source/Civil_parish) in [North Lincolnshire](/source/North_Lincolnshire), England, south of the [River Torne](/source/River_Torne_(England)) on the [Isle of Axholme](/source/Isle_of_Axholme), close to the boundary with [South Yorkshire](/source/South_Yorkshire). The population at the 2011 census was 455.[1]

## History

The name Wroot is derived from *wrot*, [Old English](/source/Old_English) for [snout](/source/Snout), probably in reference to a spur of land.[2] *Mills* confirms the view, also stating that in 1157 Wroot was "Wroth".[3]

A memorial stone, "*Remember John Wesley*"

In 1726 [Samuel Wesley](/source/Samuel_Wesley_(poet%2C_died_1735)), father of [John Wesley](/source/John_Wesley) and [Charles Wesley](/source/Charles_Wesley), became rector at Wroot, occasionally living there. The [living](/source/Benefice#Church_of_England) obtained from the small [parish](/source/Parish_(Church_of_England)) was unsupportive for Wesley, with his [parsonage](/source/Rectory) being thatched and the area "little better than a swamp". His son John Wesley officiated as curate at Wroot until July 1728, after which he became Moderator of [Lincoln College, Oxford](/source/Lincoln_College%2C_Oxford). Samuel Wesley's daughter, [Mehetabel](/source/Mehetabel_Wesley_Wright), wrote of the inhabitants of Wroot to her sister Emilia:

Fortune has fixed thee in a place Debarred of wisdom, wit, and grace – High births and virtue equally they scorn, As asses dull, on dunghills born; Impervious as the stones their heads are found; Their rage and hatred steadfast as the ground. With these unpolished wights, thy youthful days Glide slow and dull, and Nature's lamp decays : Oh what a lamp is hid 'midst such a sordid race !'[4]

By 1826 houses in the parish numbered no more than 54 with a population of 285.[4]

In 1885 *[Kelly's Directory](/source/Kelly's_Directory)* recorded an 1881 population of 356 in a parish area of 3,246 acres (13.1 km2), in which the chief crops grown were wheat and potatoes. One of the principal landowners was the [Hatfield Chase](/source/Hatfield_Chase) Corporation. There were eighteen farmers, a wheelwright, shopkeeper, blacksmith, shoemaker, grocer, and a collector of rates. The grocer was also a provision and tea dealer and confectioner. An omnibus linked the village to [Doncaster](/source/Doncaster) market weekly. There was a [Primitive Methodist](/source/Primitive_Methodism) and a [Wesleyan](/source/Wesleyan_Methodist_Church_(Great_Britain)) chapel, a post office, and a [public house](/source/Public_house), the Cross Keys. The parish church of St Pancras, rebuilt in 1879 on the site of an earlier church, held 100 people. The village school, which held about 100 children, was also built in 1879 on the site of a former Free School, founded and endowed in 1706 by Henry Travis.[5]

Henry Travis of London provided in his will endowments for the establishment of three schools, one each in [Hatfield](/source/Hatfield%2C_South_Yorkshire), [Thorne](/source/Thorne%2C_South_Yorkshire) and Wroot parishes, to provide instruction in English, Church [catechism](/source/Catechism) and Christian religious principles. Children were to be selected for the schools by parish parsons and churchwardens. The endowment was administered by nine trustees, and a schoolmaster was to be employed for between eighty and ninety pounds per year.[6]

## School

Today's village school is the Wroot Travis Charity [Church of England](/source/Christian_school#United_Kingdom) Primary School. The school's 2011 [Ofsted](/source/Ofsted) inspection judgement gave it an overall rating of Grade 2 'Good'.[7][8]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["civil parish population 2011"](http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11131013&c=wroot&d=16&e=62&g=6382142&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1461144294754&enc=1). *Neighbourhood Statistics*. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 20 April 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Wroot"](http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Lincolnshire/Wroot). *Key To English Place Names*. [English Place Name Society](/source/English_Place_Name_Society). Retrieved 9 May 2012.[*[page needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources)*]

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Mills, Anthony David (2003); *A Dictionary of British Place Names*, p. 513, [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press), revised edition (2011). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [019960908X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/019960908X)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Tyerman_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Tyerman_4-1) Tyerman, Luke (1866); [*Life and Times of the Rev. Samuel Wesley, M.A., Rector of Epworth, and Father of the Revs. John and Charles Wesley, the Founders of TheMethodists*](https://books.google.com/books?id=KzsBAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22Wroot%22&pg=PA388), pp. 388–405, reprinted HardPress Publishing (2012). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1407753398](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1407753398)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Kellys_5-0)** *Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull* 1885, p. 719, 720

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Stonehouse, William Brocklehurst; [*The History and Topography of the Isle of Axholme: Being That Part of Lincolnshire Which Is West of Trent*](https://books.google.com/books?id=A4WAA6kN4hQC&dq=%22Wroot%22&pg=PA383); pp. 383–392, reprinted Lightning Source UK Ltd (2011). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1241410240](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1241410240)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Wroot Travis Charity Church of England Primary School"](http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/ELS/118022); Ofsted School Inspection Report. Retrieved 21 July 2012

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Village school is praised by Ofsted"](http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/news/isle-news/village-school-is-praised-by-ofsted-1-3483516); *The Epworth Bells*, 21 July 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2012

## External links

- Media related to [Wroot](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wroot) at Wikimedia Commons

- ["Wroot Local History Pack"](http://www.northlincs.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/local-studies/localhistorypacks/wroot/?locale=en), North Lincolnshire Council. Retrieved 21 July 2012

- ["Wroot"](http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Wroot/); [Genuki](/source/Genuki).org.uk. Retrieved 21 July 2012

- ["Wroot"](http://www.isleofaxholme.net/wroot.html); Isleofaxholme.net. Retrieved 21 July 2012

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