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Welcome |
Hi, I'm
Copper, the Harby webcat
here to
welcome you
to the
website of the village of
Harby
in the Vale of Belvoir
There are lots of us cats in the village and we keep a regular patrol to
see that everything is alright. To find your way about this site is easy. Simply click on the
pictures at the top of the page or follow other instructions.
New Book about Harby
The Harby History Group are
publishing a book on Harby due out at the end of October 2010. It will
contain approximately 160 pages of text and photographs relating to
village life up to 1975. Copies at an anticipated price of £10 will be
available from The Melton Bookshop, Leicester Street Melton Mowbray, or
can be reserved by contacting John Blundy, Cherry Booth, Trevor Coy,
Neil Cunnington, Anne Dames, Rex Stapleford or Bella Towers.
John Blundy, Chairman, Harby History Group, 60 Boyers
Orchard Harby.
email -
johnblundy@boyers60.freeserve.co.uk.
Click on the
cat 
for a site map of all the pages.
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Click
here to
go to the Harby Churchyard Survey
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Click
here to go to Harby in old
photographs
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Click on the map for old and new maps of
our village and how to get to us.
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 What's
New? To fly straight to the latest news of Harby
click on Tweetsy the bird in the picture.
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World Wide Harby click on
the globe for news of people around the world connected with our
village.
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Harby is a large Vale of Belvoir village with a population of 873 people,
375 houses, nine miles north of Melton Mowbray.
Harby occupies an important central position in the Vale of Belvoir. It was first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1085 as Herdebi
but the name goes back to Viking times and it means the village
of Hjortr.
Over the centuries many changes have taken place but Harby has always retained the pattern of its roads and dwellings and has continued to be at the hub of Vale life.
Today Harby is fortunate to have kept all the vital features which make for a thriving village life, unlike so many of our neighbouring villages. The historic church of St. Mary's dominates the approach to Harby from Langar. More centrally the Valley Christian
Center is housed in the old chapel. The heart of the village contains two characterful public houses, the vital garage and two excellent shops, one of which is also our much-needed Post Office. We can boast an attractive and successful primary school. Community activities are housed at the Village Hall. These facilities are crucial to the high quality of life we continue to enjoy in Harby. In addition some other places of work still can be found in the village, notably the two dairies. More work opportunities exist at the Langar industrial estate, close to the village.
Pictures of
Harby. Click here for Harby in the frost in
1992.
Are you at the
right Harby? There is also a Harby in Nottinghamshire with the website
www.harby.org.uk.
This site was designed and built by Leslie Cram. The community information in these pages
was originally compiled
by Marilyn Garner.
If you have
any queries or suggestions about this site please click to contact the
webcaptain leslie.cram@talk21.com.
The Village webcat is Copper.
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Hi, I'm Wincy the
spider. I live here and count how many people come to visit our
website. You are
number
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September 03, 2010
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