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Kelly's Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1895 pages 80 – 81

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 Newark and Melton Mowbray and Melton and Nottingham joint fines of the Great Northern and London and North Western railways, 1 1/4 miles southeast of the village, 8 3/4 north from Melton Mowbray and 14 south-east from Nottingham, in the Eastern division of the county, Framland hundred, Belvoir petty sessional division, Melton Mowbray union and county court district, rural deanery of Framland (third portion), archdeaconry of Leicester and diocese of Peterborough. 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 aumbrey 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, at a cost of £1,925; there are 220 sittings: in the churchyard is an ancient stone cross. The register dates from the year 1700. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £560, arising from 459 3/4 acres of land (awarded in lieu of tithes at the Inclosure in 1793), with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Rutland K.G. and held since 1853 by the Rev. Manners Octavius Norman B.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. Here 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 Bark-stone ; 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, and is distributed yearly by the rector and churchwardens. The Duke of Rutland K.G., G.C.B. who is lord of the manor, Messrs. Francis Orson, Frank Smith and John Whittle, jun. and the rector, are the chief landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are beans and wheat and some land in pasture. The area is 2,062 acres; rateable value, £3,739; the population in 1891 was 637.

Sexton, Thomas Hall.

Post, M. O. & T. O., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity & Insurance Office.—Mrs. Ann Watchorn, sub-postmistress. Letters through Melton Mowbray, arrive at 8.15 a.m.; dispatched at 4.55 p.m. week days only

National School (mixed), erected 1860, to hold 120 children; average attendance, 116; Alfred Edwards, master

Railway Station, John W. Page, station master

Carriers.—Frederick Skinner, to Melton Mowbray, tues.;, William Starbuck, to Nottingham, wed. & sat

PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Baguley Mrs
Branston Miss
Hopkins James, Ivy cottage
Johnson Rev. Alfred Henry Samuel (curate)
Norman Rev. Manners Octaviua B.A. Rectory

COMMERCIAL.
Raguley William, grazier
Barke Robert, farmer
Brown John, baker & grocer
Buxton Robert, blacksmith
Dewey John, grazier
Dickman Wm. shopkeeper, plumber & glazier
Freck Thos. & James, farmers
Furmidge & Kemp, maltsters, corn & coal merchants & farmers
Furmidge Samuel, cowkeeper
Gregg Thomas, cowkeeper
Hall Edmund, grazier
Hall Thomas, blacksmith.
Harwood William, cowkeeper
Haskard Charles, boot maker
Hourd Albert James, ¦wheelwright
Jackson John, butcher & grazier
Lamin & Shipman, millers (steam & -wind) & corn dealers & wharfingers
Lamin William, grazier
Martin Thomas, 'wheelwright
Martin William, baker
Miller John, cowkeeper
Morrell John, inland revenue officer
Musson Daniel, carpenter
Musson John, carpenter
Oakden Arthur H. brewer
Orson Francis, farmer & landowner
Pick Elizabeth (Mrs.), cowkeeper
Porter George, White Hart P.H
Robinson Frederick, coal dealer
Rose Joseph, grazier
Shipman Henry, farmer
Smith William, tailor
Spencer William, cowkeeper
Starbuck James, chimney sweeper
Starbuck Wm.frmr. carrier & cab prpr
Stokes Jas. clerk to parish council
Stokes Jane (Miss), shopkeeper
Stokes Otho, plumber & glazier
Swingler Wm. farmer, Harby lodge
Watchorn Ann (Mrs.),baker & post off
Welsh Alfred, tailor
Welsh Mary (Miss), dress maker
Whitaker Chas. grocer & draper
Whittle Jn. Nag's Head P.H.& glazier
Whittle Jn. jun. grazier & landowner