WRABNESS, a parish, with a r. station, in Tendring district, Essex; on the Harwich railway and on the river Stour, 5¼ miles W of Harwich. It has a postal pillar-box under Manningtree. Acres, 1,491; of which 415 are water. Real property, £2,758. Pop., 226. Houses, 53. The manor belongs to E. W. Garland , Esq. W. Hall is the seat of the Richardsons. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £320.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is plain. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))