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Top - Flower display by the local pub. Middle - St Pancras Church, Wroot. Bottom - Wroot Methodist Church.
Wroot village - an attractive little place
Wroot is a distinctive little place set on slightly raised ground close to the Thorne peat moors and the Isle of Axholme. Various explanations have been given for the village’s name, including that it was derived from the Old English ‘Wrot’ (meaning ‘a snout-like spur of land). Another suggestion is that it translates as ‘out of England’ – which it certainly may have looked in times past.
At one time it was an isolated island amongst the peat bogs and flood plains and could only be accessed by boat. Then, in the 17th Century, drainage schemes by the Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden changed the landscape. Today, Wroot it is an attractive and well-presented little place.
The village church of St. Pancras was rebuilt in 1879, though the site of the former church (where John Wesley was once curate) has been marked. In the 1800s, Wroot had both Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, but what remains today is Wroot Methodist Church, which was constructed in the latter part of the 19th Century. Farming is still central in Wroot, and the village is grateful to still have both its local pub and Post Office.
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