Description
Wreay, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Carlisle St Mary parish, Cumberland, with a station on the L. & N.W.R., 5 1/2 miles SSE of Carlisle. There is a post office under Carlisle; money order and telegraph office, Carlisle. Acreage of the township, 1111; population, 160; of the ecclesiastical parish, 491. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Carlisle; net value, £300 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter, who are also lords of the manor. The church was built in 1843, is in the Byzantine style, and consists of chancel, nave and turret. There is a partially endowed school and a parochial library.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
