The area south-east of Tomelilla is still characterized by the estates of Bollerup, S Herrestad, Tosterup, Högestad, Övrabyborg and Örup. Here, the relationship between the main farm and the outyard can still be traced and the villages still breathe the Middle Ages. The often vast fields are broken by large avenues and groves of beech or oak. The oldest buildings on the estates are made of stone and show how important the area once was.
Farms and houses in the small town of Nedraby lie like on a string in the hilly landscape, created by the now tranquil Örup and Nybro rivers. Here is the spring that gives Ystad municipality its good drinking water, Allevad's mill. Here you will find Tomelillaorten's beekeepers' association. In these farmlands, interrupted by riverbanks and pastures, the splendour of flowers is great and the bees' field of work is rich.
Nedraby is an old village. Finds at the impressive church ruins show that people have lived here for at least a thousand years.
The road down to Nedraby is signposted on highway 19 after Benestad in the direction of Ystad. The church, which is now a well-visited ruin, was called Arvelunda-Nedraby church. The village was its own parish and in the 1600s it became too small to support a priest, so in 1635 the parish was merged with the neighbouring parishes and since Nedraby church, built as early as 1250, was in poor condition, it was abandoned. But the cemetery was used after the church was closed and even today the ruins and the cemetery are used occasionally.
In and around the village, we see elements of agrarian industrial environments, such as a number of mills, of which Övraby mill is the most familiar, but also of Allevad's dairy and Vallabäcken's starch factory from the early 1900s.
Perhaps the most visited business in Nedraby is probably Britta's Spettkaksbageri, where the old craft of baking over an open fire is still alive and attracts many interested people.
The nearest major town with schools and other services is Tomelilla , about five kilometres to the north. There are bus connections from Övraby towards Bollerup and Ystad.
