Description
Wroot, a parish, with a village, in Lincolnshire, 4 miles from Finningley station on the G.N.R. It has a post office under Bawtry; money order and telegraph office, Haxey. Acreage, 3386; population, 333. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £365 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church of St Pancras dates back to about 605. In 1879 it underwent extensive restoration, the old walls being encased with brick. An additional S transept was also added. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels and an endowed school.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
