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Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1881 page 526

HARBY is a large village and parish, in the Northern division of the county, Framland hundred, Melton Mowbray union and county court district, rural deanery of Framland third portion, archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. The village is pleasantly situated on the south side of the Grantham canal; there is a station 1 1/4 miles from the village on the Newark, Melton and Nottingham branch of the Great Northern and London and North Western joint railway, which is called Harby and Stathern, 8 3/4 miles north from Melton Mowbray and 14 south-east from Nottingham, on the borders of Nottinghamshire. The church of St. Mary is in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, porch, and a square tower, with 4 bells, the dates of which are, two 1610, one 1614 and one 1701, and a clock, which was presented by the Duke of St. Albans ; the church was re-roofed in 1870 and the stonework, outside and in, restored; it is not yet re-pewed but has chairs provided till funds are forthcoming to re-pew it. The register dates from the year 1700. The living is a rectory, yearly value £560, arising from 455 acres of land, which were awarded in lieu of tithes at the enclosure in 1793, with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Rutland and held by the Rev. Manners Octavius Norman b.a. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. The Wesleyan Methodists have a place of worship here. In 1739 the Rev.John Major left £10, the interest for the poor of this parish, who also receive £8 6s. 8d. yearly from Chester's Charity, of Barkstone ; Mrs. Hannah Thompson left £10 for the benefit of the Sunday school in 1866 ; Mrs. Orson left £20. The Duke of St. Albans gave £30 in 1839: the interest of the above sums, which are all in Melton Savings Bank, is distributed yearly by the rector and churchwardens. The Duke of Rutland is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are the Duke of Rutland, Messrs. Orson, Whittle, Shipman, Smith and Lamin. The soil is clay ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are beans, wheat and pasture. The area is 1,980 acres; rateable value, £3,268 ; the population in 1881 was 591.

Parish Clerk, John Gibson.

Post, Money Order & Telegraph Office & Savings Bank.—JohnWatchorn Clifton, receiver. Letters through Melton Mowbray arrive at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m. week days only

National School, erected 1860 (mixed), Jonathan Oliff, master; Miss Florence Mathews, infants' mistress

Railway Station, JohnW. Page, station master

Carriers.—Benjamin Pick & Samuel Starbuck, to Melton Mowbray, tuesday; to Nottingham wed. & sat

Bonsor William
Norman Rev. Manners Octavius, b.a. [rector]

COMMERCIAL.
Baguley George, grazier
Barke Robert, farmer
Barnes William, farmer
Brown John, baker
Clifton John Watchorn, grocer, baker & post office
Dickman Wm. shopkeeper, plumber & glazier
Freck James, jun. farmer
Freck James, sen. farmer
Furmidge W. & S. brewers & maltsters, corn, coal & coke merchts. & graziers
Gibson John, bricklayer & shopkeeper
Gibson William, miller
Goodson Robert, farmer
Gregg Thomas, boat owner
Hall Edmund, blacksmith
Haywood John, jun. White Hart, & farmer
Haywood John, sen. farmer
Jackson John, butcher & farmer
Lamin & Shipman, millers & corn dealrs
Lamin John, miller & wharfinger
Lamin Thomas, maltster
Marshall John, farmer
Martin Thomas, joiner, wheelwright & agricultural implement maker
Monks James, shoe maker
Musson Daniel, wheelwright
Musson John, carpenter
Musson Samuel, carpenter
Orson Frank, farmer & grazier
Shipman William, farmer
Starbuck Samuel, farmer
Whitaker Willi am, shopkeeper
Whittle John, Nag's Head, & farmer
Whittle John, jun. farmer