The Harby Website

Village Guide

Harby History

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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.  

Click on the cat  click on me for the site map  for a site map of all the pages.

 

Click here to go to the Harby Churchyard Survey

Click here to go to Harby in old photographs

Click on the map for old and new maps of our village and how to get to us.

 

What's New?  To fly straight  to the latest news of Harby  click on Tweetsy the bird in the  picture. 

 

World Wide Harby click on the globe for news of people around the world connected with our village.

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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