It lies 2 miles (3 km) east of Brigg and close to Humberside Airport, on the A18.

The village is shown as "Waregebi" in the Domesday Book, a name thought to derive from Old Danish, meaning "Wraghi's farmstead".

[citation needed] Domesday Book records that the village consisted of a church with a priest and farmland, meadow land and woodland.

The advowson of the church was donated to Clare Hall, Cambridge by Elizabeth de Burgo in 1348.

He also endowed the Parish Reading Room (now demolished), hoping to provide the villagers the opportunity of an education.

At the north-eastern boundary of Wrawby parish with Melton Ross is the site of an old gallows, reputedly placed there on the order of King James I as a warning to prevent bloodshed between the feuding Ross and Tyrwhitt families.

[citation needed] The parish of Wrawby was enclosed in 1800–1805, with the land being divided between 43 owners, including the Earl of Yarborough, Clare Hall, Cambridge (replacing the title of advowson), and the Elwes family.

[citation needed] It was described in 1870–1872 in John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: WRAWBY, a township and a parish in Glanford-Brigg district, Lincoln.

[citation needed] The graveyard surrounding the church was closed in 1857 when a new cemetery was opened on a larger site on the outskirts of Brigg.

A Methodist church was built in Chapel Lane and served as a place of worship from 1885 until 2005, when it became a private house.

[8] The village has a church, a primary school, a repair garage, a block of warden-assisted flats for over 50s, a care home for the elderly, and a village hall that opened in the late 1990s to accommodate functions and community activities.

The one remaining retailer is a farm shop on the main road set up in 1967 to sell local produce.

In recent years some community buildings have been sold for conversion into housing, such as the chapel and the parish rooms.