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Kelly Directory of Leicestershire 1928 pages 97-98
HARBY is a large village and parish
on the borders of Nottinghamshire, on the south side of the Grantham
canal, with a station called "Harby and Stathern," which is the junction
of the Grantham and Melton Mowbray and Melton and Nottingham joint lines
of the London and North Eastern and London, Midland and Scottish
railways, 1 1/4 miles south-east of the village, 8 3/4 north from Melton
Mowbray and 14 south-east from Nottingham, in the Melton division of the
county, hundred of Framland, petty sessional division of Belvoir, union
and county court district of Melton Mowbray, rural deanery of Framland
(first portion), archdeaconry and diocese of Leicester. The church of
St. Mary is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting
of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles south porch and an
embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock, presented by
the Duke of St. Albans, and 5 bells, two dated 1610, one 1614, one 1701
and the fifth 1887: the chancel retains an aumbry and a piscina, and
there is also a piscina in the south aisle: the font bears the date
1606: the church was restored and new roofed in 1870, and further
restoration took place during 1874 and 1876: a new vestry and organ
chamber were added in 1903: there are 220 sittings. The register dates
from the year 1700. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £700,
including 1 acre of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Duke of
Rutland, and held since 1925 by the Rev. Arthur Evelyn Furnival M.A. of
Exeter College, Oxford. In the churchyard there was an ancient stone
cross, now removed to the village green and reconstructed as a memorial
to the men of Harby who fell in the Great War, 1914-18. There is a
Wesleyan Methodist chapel, built in 1847. In 1739 the Rev. John Major
left £10, the interest for the poor of this parish, who also receive £6
13s. 4d. yearly from Chester's Charity, of Barkstone; Mrs. Hannah
Thompson left £10 for the benefit of the church Sunday school in 1866;
Mrs. Orson left £20; the Duke of St Albans gave £40 in 1839: the
interest of the above sums, which are all in the care of the Charity
Commissioners, is distributed yearly by the rector and Parish Council
trustees. The land is chiefly owned by farmers. The soil is clay;
subsoil, clay, The chief crops are beans and wheat and some land in
pasture. The area is 2,056 acres of land and 6 < water; the population
in 1921 was 619. Post M. O., T. & T. E. D. Office (within limited distance). Letters through Melton Mowbray Railway Station (L. & N. E. & L. M. & S)
Carriers.- Miller, to Melton Mowbray,
tues. & W. Coy runs an omnibus service to Melton, Nottingham, wed. & sat |